[fpc-pascal] Are the TEncoding singletons thread-safe?

[Bart]

On 8/11/16, silvioprog <silvioprog at gmail.com> wrote:

> ... so I decided to research how Delphi
> implements it, because I can't get any error on it, and I've seen it
> implements a "lock-free initialization" technique
> <http://stackoverflow.com/a/24657705/3268398> using the XE's
> AtomicCmpExchange() function before return any TEncoding global instance.
......
> I could send a patch to solve it,

I hope you did not look at the Delphi sourcecode to see how it was
implemented, because that would now make a "clean room" implementation
on our side almost impossible.

Bart