Re: [Mingw-users] Assembler errors ("expecting string instruction after `rep'") after upgrading to GCC 4.8.1

[Nathan R. <zer...@ho...>]

> I just upgraded my MinGW GCC from 4.7.2 to 4.8.1 using
>
>  mingw-get upgrade gcc
>  mingw-get upgrade g++
>
> and a program that compiled and assembled perfectly with
> 4.7.2 gives about 40 assembler errors of the following
> form with 4.8.1:
>
> C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\cc8M2n8y.s:125: Error: expecting string instruction after `rep'

"mingw-get upgrade binutils" fixed the problem.

Does this suggest that binutils should be a dependency
of gcc/g++?

Regards,
Nate