Sylvain Henry authored Aug 08, 2020 and Marge Bot committed Nov 26, 2020

[This is @Ericson2314 writing a commit message for @hsyl20's patch.]

(Progress towards #11953, #17377, #17375)

`Int64Rep` and `Word64Rep` are currently broken on 64-bit systems.  This
is because they should use "native arg rep" but instead use "large arg
rep" as they do on 32-bit systems, which is either a non-concept or a
128-bit rep depending on one's vantage point.

Now, these reps currently aren't used during 64-bit compilation, so the
brokenness isn't observed, but I don't think that constitutes reasons
not to fix it. Firstly, the linked issues there is a clearly expressed
desire to use explicit-bitwidth constructs in more places. Secondly, per
[1], there are other bugs that *do* manifest from not threading
explicit-bitwidth information all the way through the compilation
pipeline. One can therefore view this as one piece of the larger effort
to do that, improve ergnomics, and squash remaining bugs.

Also, this is needed for !3658. I could just merge this as part of that,
but I'm keen on merging fixes "as they are ready" so the fixes that
aren't ready are isolated and easier to debug.

[1]: https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2020-October/019332.html