Exception handler doesn't call destructors when catching SEH exception

Question

class ScopedShit
{
public:
    ScopedShit() {
        cout << "ScopedShit()" << endl;
    }
    ~ScopedShit() {
        cout << "~ScopedShit()" << endl;
    }
};

void foo()
{
    ScopedShit ss;
    int x = 0;
    int y = 5 / x;
}

int main()
{
    __try {
        foo();
    }
    __except(true) {
        cout << "Continuing..." << endl;
    }
}

Output:

ScopedShit()

Continuing...

I'm reading this article http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/2126/How-a-C-compiler-implements-exception-handling which explains:

But before it (the exception handler) calls the catch block (it knows the address of the catch block from funcinfo structure, see figure 4), it must perform stack unwinding: cleaning up the stack frames of the functions below this function's frame. Cleaning of the stack frame involves nice little intricacy: The exception handler must find all the local objects of the function alive on the frame at the time of the exception and call their destructors.

Am I missing something?

Answer 1

I believe you need to specify /EHa at compile time for SEH exceptions to invoke C++ destructors.

If /EH is not specified, the compiler will catch structured and C++ exceptions, but will not destroy C++ objects that will go out of scope as a result of the exception.

See MSDN for further details.