WARNING: file compiler/stgSyn/CoreToStg.hs, line 250: $fCategoryConstraint:- True False

Tried to debug unrelated build failure of constraints-0.4.1.3 and found this in today's ghc-HEAD:

$ inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 -fforce-recomp -c C.hs -O0
WARNING: file compiler/stgSyn/CoreToStg.hs, line 250
  $fCategoryConstraint:- True False

{-# LANGUAGE ConstraintKinds #-}
{-# LANGUAGE KindSignatures #-}
{-# LANGUAGE TypeOperators #-}
{-# LANGUAGE Rank2Types #-}
{-# LANGUAGE GADTs #-}

module C () where
import Control.Category
import GHC.Types (Constraint)

data Dict :: Constraint -> * where
  Dict :: a => Dict a

infixr 9 :-

newtype a :- b = Sub (a => Dict b)

instance Category (:-) where
  id  = refl
  (.) = trans

infixl 1 \\

(\\) :: a => (b => r) -> (a :- b) -> r
r \\ Sub Dict = r

trans :: (b :- c) -> (a :- b) -> a :- c
trans f g = Sub (Dict \\ f \\ g)

refl :: a :- a
refl = Sub Dict

{-
$ inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 -fforce-recomp -c C.hs -O0

WARNING: file compiler/stgSyn/CoreToStg.hs, line 250
  $fCategoryConstraint:- True False
-}

Original file it was factored out is: https://github.com/ekmett/constraints/blob/c550b7653e88d58882873d11f05538d783313a05/src/Data/Constraint.hs

Might be a result of D1889

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Trac field	Value
Version	8.1
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	Unresolved
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