diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/retdec/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/retdec/default.nix
index 475d1950bb2..848dfca5ce6 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/retdec/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/retdec/default.nix
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   # itself and trying to build it. The build should fail and tell you which dependencies you have to upgrade to which versions.
   # I've notified upstream about this problem here:
   # https://github.com/avast-tl/retdec/issues/412
+  # gcc is pinned to gcc8 in all-packages.nix. That should probably be re-evaluated on update.
   version = "3.2";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 79fe6d38124..a845f5d38b8 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -10616,7 +10616,9 @@ in
 
   remake = callPackage ../development/tools/build-managers/remake { };
 
-  retdec = callPackage ../development/tools/analysis/retdec { };
+  retdec = callPackage ../development/tools/analysis/retdec {
+    stdenv = gcc8Stdenv;
+  };
   retdec-full = retdec.override {
     withPEPatterns = true;
   };