[Bug libstdc++/50745] proposal to make visibility of namespace std configurable

[redi at gcc dot gnu.org]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50745

--- Comment #1 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-10-16 13:51:57 UTC ---
I understand the benefit of hiding internal implementation details, but your
proposal seems to imply that you could alter the visibility of everything in
namespace std e.g. std::string would have hidden visibility.  What's the point
of the standard library if you can't use any of it outside libstdc++.so ?