diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index 845bf6c4079..e131ed34a43 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT 5.0-CURRENT IS SLOW:
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 	Gcc 3.1 debugging format (cc -g) has changed from STABS to DWARF2.
 	Unfortunately our native GDB (at version 4.18) does not understand
-	the DWARF2 debugging format.  Thus you must use `-gstabs+' to
+	the DWARF2 debugging format.  Thus you must use `gcc -gstabs+' to
 	generated debugging information for our native GDB.
 
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