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If the crash is isolated (no other reports) and flipping one bit in the crashing pointer value would make the pointer valid, it's assumed to be a bitflip. This obviously will only catch a minor portion of bitflips, i.e. any image or video data with bitflips wouldn't crash.

From what he's saying they run an actual memory test after a crash, too.

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