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authorRickard Green <[email protected]>2019-02-23 18:59:06 +0100
committerRickard Green <[email protected]>2019-02-25 11:18:32 +0100
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<file>ref_man_ei.xml</file>
</header>
<description>
- <p>The <c>ei</c> library is a <c>C</c> interface library for
- communication with <c>Erlang</c>.</p>
+ <note><p>The support for VxWorks is deprecated as of OTP 22, and
+ will be removed in OTP 23.</p></note>
+ <note><p>The old legacy <c>erl_interface</c> library (functions
+ with prefix <c>erl_</c>) is deprecated as of OTP 22, and will be
+ removed in OTP 23. This does not apply to the <c>ei</c>
+ library. Reasonably new <c>gcc</c> compilers will issue deprecation
+ warnings. In order to disable these warnings, define the macro
+ <c>EI_NO_DEPR_WARN</c>.</p></note>
<note>
<p>By default, the <c>ei</c> library is only guaranteed
to be compatible with other Erlang/OTP components from the same