Runtime_error class with LINUX

[bmsce engg]

I have a c++ application running on Linux platform. As part of exception handling, I wanted to derive my user defined exception class from standard runtime_error class.

Are there any known issues/problems between linux OS and runtime_error class? This might sound a little weird but I have seen people avoiding runtime_error class on linux:

#ifdef HPUX
class myException : public std::runtime_er ror
#endif
#ifdef LINUX
class myExcpetion
#endif
{ // class definition starts here


Any thoughts would be highly appreciated....
Thanks.

[Banfa]

I am not aware of any issues with deriving from std::runtime_er ror and have been doing so (on Linux and Windows) for the last 2 years.