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* Vectorisation avoidance is now the default
* Types and values from unvectorised modules are permitted in scalar code
* Simplified the VECTORISE pragmas (see http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/DataParallel/VectPragma for the spec)
* Vectorisation information is now included in the annotated Core AST

By using Haskell's debugIsOn rather than CPP's "#ifdef DEBUG", we
don't need to kludge things to keep the warning checker happy etc.

This patch should have no user-visible effect.  It implements a
significant internal refactoring of the way that FC axioms are
handled.  The ultimate goal is to put us in a position to implement
"pattern-matching axioms".  But the changes here are only does
refactoring; there is no change in functionality.

Specifically:

 * We now treat data/type family instance declarations very,
   very similarly to types class instance declarations:

   - Renamed InstEnv.Instance as InstEnv.ClsInst, for symmetry with
     FamInstEnv.FamInst.  This change does affect the GHC API, but
     for the better I think.

   - Previously, each family type/data instance declaration gave rise
     to a *TyCon*; typechecking a type/data instance decl produced
     that TyCon.  Now, each type/data instance gives rise to
     a *FamInst*, by direct analogy with each class instance
     declaration giving rise to a ClsInst.

   - Just as each ClsInst contains its evidence, a DFunId, so each FamInst
     contains its evidence, a CoAxiom.  See Note [FamInsts and CoAxioms]
     in FamInstEnv.  The CoAxiom is a System-FC thing, and can relate any
     two types, whereas the FamInst relates directly to the Haskell source
     language construct, and always has a function (F tys) on the LHS.

   - Just as a DFunId has its own declaration in an interface file, so now
     do CoAxioms (see IfaceSyn.IfaceAxiom).

   These changes give rise to almost all the refactoring.

 * We used to have a hack whereby a type family instance produced a dummy
   type synonym, thus
      type instance F Int = Bool -> Bool
   translated to
      axiom FInt :: F Int ~ R:FInt
      type R:FInt = Bool -> Bool
   This was always a hack, and now it's gone.  Instead the type instance
   declaration produces a FamInst, whose axiom has kind
      axiom FInt :: F Int ~ Bool -> Bool
   just as you'd expect.

 * Newtypes are done just as before; they generate a CoAxiom. These
   CoAxioms are "implicit" (do not generate an IfaceAxiom declaration),
   unlike the ones coming from family instance declarations.  See
   Note [Implicit axioms] in TyCon

On the whole the code gets significantly nicer.  There were consequential
tidy-ups in the vectoriser, but I think I got them right.

* Frontend support (not yet used in the vectoriser)

- Toplevel bindings that cannot be vectorised are reported as a warning
- '-ddump-vt-trace' has even more information about unvectorised code
- Fixed some documentation

OverlappingInstances in Safe modules can only overlap instances
defined in the same module.

This major patch implements the new OutsideIn constraint solving
algorithm in the typecheker, following our JFP paper "Modular type
inference with local assumptions".  

Done with major help from Dimitrios Vytiniotis and Brent Yorgey.