Revisiting exceptions

[Mike Hearn]

On Mon, 09 May 2005 07:41:46 +0000, Gregory M. Turner wrote:
> As for the portability issue, why not an autoconf test?  Perhaps the answer is 
> "because there are still people foolish enough to run distro's other than 
> Gentoo."  If so, then why not an autoconf test and a run-time test?

Hurrah! Well, this doesn't need any runtime code AFAICT, just GCC support.
So a simple ifdef should be A-OK.

thanks -mike