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@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Requirements
 - Visual Studio 2017 or better under 64-bit Windows. Users should target a 64-bit build (x64) instead of a 32-bit build (x86). We support the LLVM clang compiler under Visual Studio (clangcl) as well as as the regular Visual Studio compiler. We also support MinGW 64-bit under Windows.
 
 
-Support for AVX-512 require a processor with AVX512-VBMI2 support (Ice Lake or better) under a 64-bit system and a recent compiler (LLVM clang 6 or better, GCC 8 or better, Visual Studio 2019 or better).
+Support for AVX-512 require a processor with AVX512-VBMI2 support (Ice Lake or better) under a 64-bit system and a recent compiler (LLVM clang 6 or better, GCC 8 or better, Visual Studio 2019 or better). You need a correspondingly recent assembler such as gas (2.30+) and asm (2.14+): recent compilers usually come with recent assemblers.
 
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