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@@ -37,11 +37,14 @@ The latest source, which may include unreleased work in progress, is always
 available from [git.gag.com](http://git.gag.com) 
 in the project [fw/altos](http://git.gag.com/?p=fw/altos;a=summary).  
 
-If you need to debug code on an Altus Metrum product, you may want our special
-version of SDCC containing a highly modified sdcdb with support for the cc1111
-debugging interface, which you can find on [git.gag.com](http://git.gag.com) 
-in the project [fw/sdcc](http://git.gag.com/?p=fw/sdcc;a=summary).  This is
-not necessary if you just want to rebuild AltOS and use it.
+If you need to debug code on an Altus Metrum product, or want to do custom
+development, you need a 2.X version of SDCC.  Version 3.X adds features that 
+bloat the code generated on 8051 enough to overflow the available flash memory
+size.  As a result, we maintain a fork of SDCC we call 'cc1111' that is based
+on the last upstream version of SDCC 2.X, plus a highly modified sdcdb with 
+support for the cc1111 debugging interface.  This is avilable as a package in
+Debian, or you can find the sources on [git.gag.com](http://git.gag.com) 
+in the project [debian/cc1111](http://git.gag.com/?p=debian/cc1111;a=summary). 
 
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