On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 5:02 AM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> wrote:
> Bart wrote: > > On 8/11/16, silvioprog <silviop...@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. > > It would make a clean room implementation by Silvio himself impossible, > but anyone that reads his description and writes code based on that > description is still clean (as long as they did not also look at the > Delphi source code). I've opened a new issue sending a possible patch: http://bugs.freepascal. org/view.php?id=30462. -- Silvio Clécio
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