diff --git a/site/source/docs/tools_reference/settings_reference.rst b/site/source/docs/tools_reference/settings_reference.rst
index 865d3aba04ed5..3de33688fa1d3 100644
--- a/site/source/docs/tools_reference/settings_reference.rst
+++ b/site/source/docs/tools_reference/settings_reference.rst
@@ -467,9 +467,8 @@ sent value to memory and loaded the received type from the same memory (using
 truncs/extends/ reinterprets). This means that when types do not match the
 emulated values may not match (this is true of native too, for that matter -
 this is all undefined behavior). This approaches appears good enough to
-support Python, which is the main use case motivating this feature.
-
-.. note:: This setting is deprecated
+support Python (the original motiviation for this feature) and Glib (the
+continued motivation).
 
 Default value: false
 
diff --git a/src/settings.js b/src/settings.js
index 1ba7733434ea9..e95eb350a465b 100644
--- a/src/settings.js
+++ b/src/settings.js
@@ -342,9 +342,9 @@ var SAFE_HEAP_LOG = false;
 // truncs/extends/ reinterprets). This means that when types do not match the
 // emulated values may not match (this is true of native too, for that matter -
 // this is all undefined behavior). This approaches appears good enough to
-// support Python, which is the main use case motivating this feature.
+// support Python (the original motiviation for this feature) and Glib (the
+// continued motivation).
 // [link]
-// [deprecated]
 var EMULATE_FUNCTION_POINTER_CASTS = false;
 
 // Print out exceptions in emscriptened code.
diff --git a/test/test_other.py b/test/test_other.py
index d51cb3c79e1e3..f95e438f1b27a 100644
--- a/test/test_other.py
+++ b/test/test_other.py
@@ -5733,7 +5733,7 @@ def test_bad_function_pointer_cast(self, opts, wasm, safe):
         if safe:
           cmd += ['-sSAFE_HEAP']
         if emulate_casts:
-          cmd += ['-sEMULATE_FUNCTION_POINTER_CASTS', '-Wno-deprecated']
+          cmd += ['-sEMULATE_FUNCTION_POINTER_CASTS']
         if relocatable:
           cmd += ['-sRELOCATABLE'] # disables asm-optimized safe heap
         print(cmd)
@@ -12598,7 +12598,7 @@ def test_setjmp_emulated_casts(self):
         }
       }
     ''')
-    self.do_runf('src.c', 'ok\ndone\n', emcc_args=['-Wno-deprecated', '-sEMULATE_FUNCTION_POINTER_CASTS'])
+    self.do_runf('src.c', 'ok\ndone\n', emcc_args=['-sEMULATE_FUNCTION_POINTER_CASTS'])
 
   def test_no_lto(self):
     # This used to fail because settings.LTO didn't reflect `-fno-lto`.
diff --git a/tools/settings.py b/tools/settings.py
index 8970cff20e7b4..c47194d1b09af 100644
--- a/tools/settings.py
+++ b/tools/settings.py
@@ -124,7 +124,6 @@
     'CLOSURE_WARNINGS': 'use -Wclosure instead',
     'LEGALIZE_JS_FFI': 'to disable JS type legalization use `-sWASM_BIGINT` or `-sSTANDALONE_WASM`',
     'ASYNCIFY_EXPORTS': 'please use JSPI_EXPORTS instead',
-    'EMULATE_FUNCTION_POINTER_CASTS': 'lack of usage',
     'MAYBE_WASM2JS': 'lack of usage',
 }