Reason: avoid having to link the entire ghc package in modules
that use compile-time annotations:
  
       import GHC.Exts( SpecConstrAnnotation )
       {-# ANN type T ForceSpecConstr #-}
  
It's a kind of bug that the package exporting SpecConstrAnnotation
is linked even though it is only needed at compile time, but putting
the data type declaration in GHC.Exts is a simple way to sidestep
the problem
  
See See Note [SpecConstrAnnotation] in SpecConstr