System PRofiler and ECC RAM

All,
Does the System Profiler indicate when RAM is ECC memory? Does it indicate when it's not?
How does it indicate this?
The Apple documentation recommends against mixing ECC and Non-ECC memory, but the System Profiler doesn't seem to indicate the difference.
Thanks.

Yes it does indicate either. Until recently, I was running mixed, now I got ECC only, below is how it is shown. How non-ECC RAM shows you already know I believe.
DIMM0/J6700:
Size: 1 GB
Type: DDR2 SDRAM ECC
Speed: PC2-4200E-444
Status: OK
DIMM1/J6800:
Size: 1 GB
Type: DDR2 SDRAM ECC
Speed: PC2-4200E-444
Status: OK
DIMM2/J6900:
Size: 1 GB
Type: DDR2 SDRAM ECC
Speed: PC2-4200E-444
Status: OK
DIMM3/J7000:
Size: 1 GB
Type: DDR2 SDRAM ECC
Speed: PC2-4200E-444
Status: OK

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