Bug#710142: FTBFS "Assembler messages: Error: expecting string instruction after `rep'"

[Basile Starynkevitch <basile@starynkevitch.net>]

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 05:35:38PM +0200, Anton Gladky wrote:
> Package: gcc-4.8
> Version: 4.8.0-8
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> last update of gcc causes FTBFS (in this case, yade package):
> 
> /tmp/ccNQ6K5n.s: Assembler messages:
> /tmp/ccNQ6K5n.s:420: Error: expecting string instruction after `rep'
> 
> I think it is a compiler`s issue.

Yes. The compiler emits "rep; ret" (or perhaps "rep ret") and the recent binutils are not happy with that.
see http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2011-03/msg00286.html 

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