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>> I suspect they are being overly paranoid, while being strictly
>> correct. I cannot imagine that SDL would interfere with curl's
>> initialisation routine.
>
>
> Well, if they both use for instance inet_ntoa(), strtok() or localtime(), 
> just to show three standard library function whose evilness in multithread 
> programs is well known, they could interfere each other.
>
> If curl documentation states a similar warning it's obviously because it is 
> calling one or more of these multithread unsafe apis.
>
> I ignore why they did not fix the problem since there is always a thread-safe 
> variant for those.
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