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    <title>Scheduled for Removal</title>
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    <file>scheduled_for_removal.xml</file>
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  <section>
    <title>Introduction</title>
    <p>This document list all functionality in Erlang/OTP that currently are
    scheduled for removal. For more information regarding the strategy regarding
    removal of functionality see the documentation of
    <seealso marker="../system_principles/misc#removal">Support, Compatibility,
    Deprecations, and Removal</seealso>.</p>
  </section>
  <section>
    <marker id="OTP-23"/>
    <title>OTP 23</title>
    <section>
      <title>VxWorks Support</title>
      <p>Some parts of OTP has had limited VxWorks support, such as for
      example <seealso marker="erl_interface:index"><c>erl_interface</c></seealso>.
      This support will be removed as of OTP 23. This limited support
      was formally deprecated as of OTP 22</p>
    </section>
    <section>
      <title>Legacy parts of erl_interface</title>
      <p>The old legacy <seealso marker="erl_interface:index"><c>erl_interface</c></seealso>
      library (functions with prefix <c>erl_</c>) will be removed as of
      OTP 23. These parts of <c>erl_interface</c> has been informally deprecated
      for a very long time, and was formally deprecated in OTP 22. You typically
      want to replace the usage of the <c>erl_interface</c> library with the use
      of the <c>ei</c> library which also is part of the <c>erl_interface</c>
      application.</p>
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