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Commit 52178f97 authored by Sebastian Graf's avatar Sebastian Graf
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Demand: Clear distinction between Call SubDmd and eval Dmd (#21717)

In #21717 we saw a reportedly unsound strictness signature due to an unsound
definition of plusSubDmd on Calls. This patch contains a description and the fix
to the unsoundness as outlined in `Note [Call SubDemand vs. evaluation Demand]`.

This fix means we also get rid of the special handling of `-fpedantic-bottoms`
in eta-reduction. Thanks to less strict and actually sound strictness results,
we will no longer eta-reduce the problematic cases in the first place, even
without `-fpedantic-bottoms`.

So fixing the unsoundness also makes our eta-reduction code simpler with less
hacks to explain. But there is another, more unfortunate side-effect:
We *unfix* #21085, but fortunately we have a new fix ready:
See `Note [mkCall and plusSubDmd]`.

There's another change:
I decided to make `Note [SubDemand denotes at least one evaluation]` a lot
simpler by using `plusSubDmd` (instead of `lubPlusSubDmd`) even if both argument
demands are lazy. That leads to less precise results, but in turn rids ourselves
from the need for 4 different `OpMode`s and the complication of
`Note [Manual specialisation of lub*Dmd/plus*Dmd]`. The result is simpler code
that is in line with the paper draft on Demand Analysis.

I left the abandoned idea in `Note [Unrealised opportunity in plusDmd]` for
posterity. The fallout in terms of regressions is negligible, as the testsuite
and NoFib shows.

```
        Program         Allocs    Instrs
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         hidden          +0.2%     -0.2%
         linear          -0.0%     -0.7%
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
            Min          -0.0%     -0.7%
            Max          +0.2%     +0.0%
 Geometric Mean          +0.0%     -0.0%
```

Fixes #21717.
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