[Lazarus] Multi-threading support in IDE

[Vincent Snijders]

Mattias Gärtner schreef:
> Zitat von Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg at opensoft.homeip.net>:
> 
>> Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>>>
>>> -compiler crashes do not effect the IDE
>>
>> I like Florian's idea too. As for your statement above, how often does 
>> this really happen? In the last 4-5 years that I have been using FPC, 
>> the compiler has not once "crashed" on me. Yes it might report that 
>> there is a compiler error in my project, but I do not consider that a 
>> crash.
> 
> The compiler is started on every compile which is the cleanest start you 
> can get. A threaded compiler must have a restart, which is less clean. 
> There will be more crashes and bugs.
> What happens if the restart fails?

For the debugger, we have reset debugger.
For the compiler, we would add a reset compiler option.

Vincent