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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 01a7e79..af41c19 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -719,6 +719,9 @@ unmaintained.
 
 By default, Configure selects ithreads if -Dusethreads is specified.
 
+(You need to use also the PerlIO layer, explained later, if you decide
+to use ithreads, to guarantee the good interworking of threads and I/O.)
+
 However, you can select the old 5005threads behavior
 
 	sh Configure -Dusethreads -Duse5005threads
@@ -727,18 +730,6 @@ If you decide to use ithreads, the 'threads' module allows their use,
 and the 'Thread' module offers an interface to both 5005threads and
 ithreads (whichever has been configured).
 
-For IRIX 6.2, you have to have the following patches installed:
-
-        1404 Irix 6.2 Posix 1003.1b man pages
-        1645 IRIX 6.2 & 6.3 POSIX header file updates
-        2000 Irix 6.2 Posix 1003.1b support modules
-        2254 Pthread library fixes
-        2401 6.2 all platform kernel rollup
-
-IMPORTANT: Without patch 2401, a kernel bug in IRIX 6.2 will cause
-your machine to panic and crash when running threaded perl.  IRIX 6.3
-and later are okay.
-
 =head2 Large file support.
 
 Since Perl 5.6.0, Perl has supported large files (files larger than
@@ -804,6 +795,10 @@ this support (if it is available).
 You can "Configure -Dusemorebits" to turn on both the 64-bit support
 and the long double support.
 
+Note that on some platforms (linux 2.2.14 (RedHat 6.2, x86), libc 2.1.3)
+the gcc 3.1 compiler has been reported to refuse to compile the
+Time::Hires module when using -Dusemorebits or an equivalent setting.
+
 =head2 Selecting File IO mechanisms
 
 Executive summary: in Perl 5.8, you should use the default "PerlIO"
@@ -1382,7 +1377,7 @@ libgdbm under HP-UX 11.
 
 =item Porting information
 
-Specific information for the OS/2, Plan9, VMS and Win32 ports is in the
+Specific information for the OS/2, Plan 9, VMS and Win32 ports is in the
 corresponding README files and subdirectories.  Additional information,
 including a glossary of all those config.sh variables, is in the Porting
 subdirectory.  Especially Porting/Glossary should come in handy.