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I frequently write programs consisting of nothing but assertions to test my code. While debugging, OSX tries to be helpful by asking whether I would like to "Click Report to see more detailed information and send a report to Apple" whenever an assertion fails.

Is there a way to disable this feature for my programs? I am using make and g++.

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Give this a shot, however it'll disable them system wide.

defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType none

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Alternatively, run CrashReporterPrefs.app, available at /Developer/Applications/Utilities. –  Bavarious Aug 15 '11 at 10:47
I suppose that's good enough. It didn't seem that my diligent (weekly or so) crash reports to Apple were resolved within OS X as time went by. –  Calaf Aug 15 '11 at 21:16

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