From: David Abrahams [mailto:dave@boost-consulting.com]
>> Of course you cannot portably pass all exceptions, but you may be able
>> to pass all the ones that use standard types.
>
>And what if the std library or somebody else throws exceptions
>*derived* from the standard types?

If it is not a recognized corba exception what the ACE TAO does is eat it with a catch(...) and then throws a corba system exception on the other side.

Glen