Go executes deferred calls on panic

console

$ go run signal.go 
1/3 = 0
1/2 = 0
1/1 = 1
hello from deferred call!
panic: runtime error: integer divide by zero
[signal 0x8 code=0x1 addr=0x400d3d pc=0x400d3d]

goroutine 1 [running]:
main.main()
	/tmp/signal.go:10 +0x13d
exit status 2

signal.go

package main

import (
	"fmt"
)

func main() {
	defer fmt.Println("hello from deferred call!")
	for i := 3; i >= 0; i-- {
		fmt.Printf("1/%v = %v\n", i, 1/i)
	}
}