Index: lexical_cast.hpp
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--- lexical_cast.hpp	(revision 61346)
+++ lexical_cast.hpp	(working copy)
@@ -55,7 +55,13 @@
 namespace boost
 {
     // exception used to indicate runtime lexical_cast failure
-    class bad_lexical_cast : public std::bad_cast
+	class bad_lexical_cast :
+// workaround MSVC bug with std::bad_cast when _HAS_EXCEPTIONS == 0
+#if defined(BOOST_MSVC) && defined(_HAS_EXCEPTIONS) && !_HAS_EXCEPTIONS
+		public std::exception
+#else
+		public std::bad_cast
+#endif
 
 #if defined(__BORLANDC__) && BOOST_WORKAROUND( __BORLANDC__, < 0x560 )
         // under bcc32 5.5.1 bad_cast doesn't derive from exception