C++ exceptions is a risky business..

We're using C++ exceptions to track problems during reading the content of a file (missing file, incomplete reads etc). The problem is that exceptions in C++ is a really shaky feature. Currently we're catching:

const std::ifstream::failure &e

but this fails on SmartOS with gcc 4.7, instead it is able to catch:

std::ifstream::failure e

(which is also what's used in the example in http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/ios/ios/exceptions/ )

Given that the above code is already used in our product and verified to work on windows, linux and macos I figured it would be safer to just add a "catch-all" clause that catchs all other errors.