Why is raising an NSException not bringing down my application?

Question

The Problem

I\'m writing a Cocoa application and I want to raise exceptions that will crash the application noisily.

I have the following li

Answer 1

There turns out to be a very simple solution:

[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] registerDefaults:@{ @"NSApplicationCrashOnExceptions": @YES }];

It does not crash your app if you use @try ... @catch.

I can't begin to imagine why this isn't the default.