diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 3df761b..2fa543f 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ TODO: document portability requirements for atomic pointer access
 TODO: possible cb aliasing?
 TODO: document requirements for function pointers and calling conventions.
 
+	- prfer noexcept over throw () with C++ 11.
+
 4.19 Thu Sep 25 08:18:25 CEST 2014
 	- ev.h wasn't valid C++ anymore, which tripped compilers other than
           clang, msvc or gcc (analyzed by Raphael 'kena' Poss). Unfortunately,
diff --git a/ev.h b/ev.h
index a831bc7..785a5da 100644
--- a/ev.h
+++ b/ev.h
@@ -42,12 +42,16 @@
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 # define EV_CPP(x) x
+# if __cplusplus >= 201103L
+#  define EV_THROW noexcept
+# else
+#  define EV_THROW throw ()
+# endif
 #else
 # define EV_CPP(x)
+# define EV_THROW
 #endif
 
-#define EV_THROW EV_CPP(throw())
-
 EV_CPP(extern "C" {)
 
 /*****************************************************************************/