Why destructor is not called on exception?

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The destructor is not being called because terminate() for the unhandled exception is called before the stack gets unwound.

The specific details of what the C++ spec says is outside of my knowledge, but a debug trace with gdb and g++ seems to bear this out.

According to the draft standard section 15.3 bullet 9:

9 If no matching handler is found in a program, the function terminate()
  (_except.terminate_)  is  called.  Whether or not the stack is unwound
  before calling terminate() is implementation-defined.

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