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@@ -179,13 +179,6 @@ and then set up the necessary environment variables with
 source env/pulpissimo.sh
 ```
 
-There exists a bug in GCC 11.1.0 which fails the sdk build with the error `'this' pointer is null [-Werror=nonnull]`.
-If you encounter this bug use the following temporary workaround instead to build the SDK:
-
-```
-VP_WORKAROUND_NONNULL_BUG=yes make build-pulp-sdk
-```
-
 ### Building the RTL simulation platform
 Note you need Questasim or Xcelium to do an RTL simulation of PULPissimo
 (verilator support planned, but not finished). Intel Modelsim for Intel FPGAs