Exception SIGABRT encountered in App Store review

After submitting my app for review, I received a rejection on account of it crashing in MacOS 12.4 environment. The Objective-C app was developed in MacOS 12.4 and the app runs OK in Xcode and as a standalone executable. The crash log shows the exception type as SIGABRT and documentation. indicates that the crash may arise from an uncaught exception. Part of the crash log is shown below. How can I find out where the problem is occurring in my code?

Application Specific Backtrace 0:
0   CoreFoundation                      0x00000001b15e5198 __exceptionPreprocess + 240
1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00000001b132fe04 objc_exception_throw + 60
2   CoreFoundation                      0x00000001b150cc98 -[__NSArrayM copyWithZone:] + 0
3   Caption Pro                         0x000000010259db78 Caption Pro + 105336
4   Caption Pro                         0x000000010259cc58 Caption Pro + 101464
5   Caption Pro                         0x000000010259c720 Caption Pro + 100128
6   CoreFoundation                      0x00000001b1558854 -[NSSet makeObjectsPerformSelector:] + 216
7   AppKit                              0x00000001b40a678c -[NSIBObjectData nibInstantiateWithOwner:options:topLevelObjects:] + 1080
8   AppKit                              0x00000001b409aa70 loadNib + 416
9   AppKit                              0x00000001b4099fa0 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) _loadNibFile:nameTable:options:withZone:ownerBundle:] + 800
10  AppKit                              0x00000001b4099ba4 -[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibNamed:owner:topLevelObjects:] + 220
11  AppKit                              0x00000001b4099974 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibNamed:owner:] + 388
12  AppKit                              0x00000001b408b740 NSApplicationMain + 576
13  dyld                                0x00000001027c508c start + 520


Thread 0 Crashed::  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib        	       0x1b1462d98 __pthread_kill + 8
1   libsystem_pthread.dylib       	       0x1b1497ee0 pthread_kill + 288
2   libsystem_c.dylib             	       0x1b13d2340 abort + 168
3   libc++abi.dylib               	       0x1b1452b08 abort_message + 132
4   libc++abi.dylib               	       0x1b1442950 demangling_terminate_handler() + 336
5   libobjc.A.dylib               	       0x1b1338320 _objc_terminate() + 144
6   libc++abi.dylib               	       0x1b1451ea4 std::__terminate(void (*)()) + 20
7   libc++abi.dylib               	       0x1b1454c1c __cxxabiv1::failed_throw(__cxxabiv1::__cxa_exception*) + 36
8   libc++abi.dylib               	       0x1b1454bc8 __cxa_throw + 140
9   libobjc.A.dylib               	       0x1b132ff6c objc_exception_throw + 420
10  CoreFoundation                	       0x1b150cc98 -[__NSSingleObjectArrayI objectAtIndex:] + 140
11  Caption Pro                   	       0x10259db78 0x102584000 + 105336
12  Caption Pro                   	       0x10259cc58 0x102584000 + 101464
13  Caption Pro                   	       0x10259c720 0x102584000 + 100128
14  CoreFoundation                	       0x1b1558854 -[NSSet makeObjectsPerformSelector:] + 216
15  AppKit                        	       0x1b40a678c -[NSIBObjectData nibInstantiateWithOwner:options:topLevelObjects:] + 1080
16  AppKit                        	       0x1b409aa70 loadNib + 416
17  AppKit                        	       0x1b4099fa0 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) _loadNibFile:nameTable:options:withZone:ownerBundle:] + 800
18  AppKit                        	       0x1b4099ba4 -[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibNamed:owner:topLevelObjects:] + 220
19  AppKit                        	       0x1b4099974 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibNamed:owner:] + 388
20  AppKit                        	       0x1b408b740 NSApplicationMain + 576
21  dyld                          	       0x1027c508c start + 520

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The crash log shows the exception type as SIGABRT and documentation. indicates that the crash may arise from an uncaught exception.

Probably. Technically SIGABRT just means that some code within the process called abort, but the most common cause of that is an unhandled language exception.

Beyond that it’s hard to say what’s going on here based on the crash report snippet you posted. Can you post the full crash report? See Posting a Crash Report for advice on how to do that.

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Full crash log attached: