-// This is a strange workaround for a compiliation problem with the try statement
-// below. With -O1 the exception is not caucht properly as of GCC-2.95.2, at
-// least on i386. Version 2.95.4 seems to have fixed this silly problem, though.
-// Funnily, with a simple extern declaration here it mysteriously works again.
-#if defined(__GNUC__) && (__GNUC__==2)
-extern "C" int putchar(int);
-#endif
-