http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48818
--- Comment #7 from vincenzo Innocente <vincenzo.innocente at cern dot ch> 2011-10-20 07:27:30 UTC --- no side effects for the time being. I've tried only small applications though. I would suggest to rename --disable-visibility --disable-std-visibility or similar as, applied to top level configure, it is not very informative about its semantics