http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50594
--- Comment #13 from Kerrek SB <z0sh at sogetthis dot com> 2011-10-03 16:12:28 UTC --- Very interesting. I understand that making the function static makes the program ill-formed, but it's still somewhat surprising that a compiler flag should turn a perfectly valid program into an invalid one. Perhaps adding those visibility specifiers to the <new> header would be a good idea, since it'd be a pure-library solution. Thanks in any case for clarifying this!