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authorLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>2022-07-12 18:53:04 +0300
committerLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>2022-07-12 18:57:21 +0300
commit6e2cab8579fc6f832b5954510b27fd7e74563436 (patch)
tree1eb3bcbd6ad9ffbd4010bb564a378ebcdff36cd8
parentUpdate THANKS. (diff)
downloadxz-6e2cab8579fc6f832b5954510b27fd7e74563436.tar.xz
xz: Document the special memlimit case of 2000 MiB on MIPS32.
See commit 95806a8a52ae57bddf6c77dfd19cf7938a92e040.
-rw-r--r--src/xz/xz.18
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/xz/xz.1 b/src/xz/xz.1
index db9de4ff..11473ed7 100644
--- a/src/xz/xz.1
+++ b/src/xz/xz.1
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\" This file has been put into the public domain.
.\" You can do whatever you want with this file.
.\"
-.TH XZ 1 "2020-11-01" "Tukaani" "XZ Utils"
+.TH XZ 1 "2022-07-12" "Tukaani" "XZ Utils"
.
.SH NAME
xz, unxz, xzcat, lzma, unlzma, lzcat \- Compress or decompress .xz and .lzma files
@@ -1019,6 +1019,9 @@ the
.I limit
is set to
.BR "4020\ MiB" .
+On MIPS32
+.B "2000\ MiB"
+is used instead.
(The values
.B 0
and
@@ -1026,7 +1029,8 @@ and
aren't affected by this.
A similar feature doesn't exist for decompression.)
This can be helpful when a 32-bit executable has access
-to 4\ GiB address space while hopefully doing no harm in other situations.
+to 4\ GiB address space (2 GiB on MIPS32)
+while hopefully doing no harm in other situations.
.IP ""
See also the section
.BR "Memory usage" .