xz: Document the special memlimit case of 2000 MiB on MIPS32.

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.\" This file has been put into the public domain.
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.\"
.TH XZ 1 "2021-01-11" "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
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.I limit
is set to
.BR "4020\ MiB" .
On MIPS32
.B "2000\ MiB"
is used instead.
(The values
.B 0
and
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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" .