TYPE is not generated by genprimops
During validation, GHC.Magic must build without warning, and must also type check with Haddock without warnings. This causes some awkwardness in GHC.Magic (see the comment above the imports regarding genprimops) because TYPE is exported from GHC.Prim and reexported by GHC.Types. We are forced to explicitly import it via GHC.Types (and not from GHC.Prim to avoid an unused import warnings). Importing via GHC.Prim would not type check with Haddock as genprimops doesn't generate TYPE for GHC.Prim. This issue surfaced in patch D5312.
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| Version | 8.6.2 |
| Type | Bug |
| TypeOfFailure | OtherFailure |
| Priority | normal |
| Resolution | Unresolved |
| Component | Core Libraries |
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