diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog b/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog
index c33de2709e4..9c0fa212917 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2003-03-14  Loren J. Rittle  <ljrittle@acm.org>
+
+	* testsuite/testsuite_hooks.h: Suppress runtime exception thrown by
+	missing named locale.
+
 2003-03-14  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@suse.de>
 
 	* configure.in: Only append to makefiles that are newly created to
diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/testsuite_hooks.cc b/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/testsuite_hooks.cc
index f9e74184262..1970ea09b75 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/testsuite_hooks.cc
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/testsuite_hooks.cc
@@ -157,6 +157,8 @@ namespace __gnu_cxx_test
       {
 	if (std::strstr (ex.what(), "unhandled name in generic implementation"))
 	  return;
+	else if (std::strstr (ex.what(), "unknown name"))
+	  return;
 	else
 	  throw;
       }
@@ -192,6 +194,8 @@ namespace __gnu_cxx_test
       {
 	if (std::strstr (ex.what(), "unhandled name in generic implementation"))
 	  return;
+	else if (std::strstr (ex.what(), "unknown name"))
+	  return;
 	else
 	  throw;
       }
@@ -219,6 +223,8 @@ namespace __gnu_cxx_test
       {
 	if (std::strstr (ex.what(), "unhandled name in generic implementation"))
 	  return;
+	else if (std::strstr (ex.what(), "unknown name"))
+	  return;
 	else
 	  throw;
       }