Silly #define Question

[KevinHall]

So, you are saying you expected the same exception handler at all places apart from the std::exception one? This doesn't sound very good an means you would be having quite a lot of unneeded catch handlers. std::exception is okay because, all standard and your custom exceptions would derive from them.

All our exceptions do derive from std::exception. The problem was that sometimes we needed to add more visibility. For example:

try
{
    //...
}
catch (CppLibException& e) // derived from std::exception
{
    //...
}
catch (std::exception& e)
{
    //...
}