Simon Marlow authored Sep 18, 2018 and Ben Gamari committed Sep 18, 2018

Shortcutting the SRT for a static function can lead to resurrecting a
static object at runtime, which violates assumptions in the GC. See
comments for details.

Test Plan:
- manual testing (in progress)
- validate

Reviewers: osa1, bgamari, erikd

Reviewed By: bgamari

Subscribers: rwbarton, carter

GHC Trac Issues: #15544

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D5145

(cherry picked from commit a324dfdf3b505ea30d134dc8183d7b4bb441ced4)