| Flash OS Linking Mode

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This mode creates an unsigned Flash operating system upgrade for the TI-89, TI-89 Titanium, TI-92+ and Voyage 200 calculators. It can be turned on using the '--flash-os' command-line option or the _flash_os control symbol. It currently supports only the raw TIB output format, which is enabled by the '--outputbin' option. Support for the current 89u/9xu/v2u format is planned and will be the default. It creates a global import asking for the appropriate Flash OS header (see Automatically Created Global Imports for more information). Since Flash operating systems are composed of 2 discontiguous parts, a small (24 KB) startup segment and a large (1944 KB for 2 MB FlashROMs, 3992 KB for 4 MB FlashROMs) main segment, startup sections are handled in a special way in this mode: Startup sections are placed into the startup segment, all other sections are merged into the main segment.
Note: Flash OS support must be compiled in for this mode to be available.