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'foreign import prim' are marked PlaySafe by the parser

Experimenting with a foreign import prim in my code I noticed the generated core produces __pkg_ccall_GC which concerned me since I thought perhaps we were experiencing the overhead of a "safe" ccall. Reid Barton reccommended filing a report, commenting:

it looks like prim imports are marked PlaySafe by the parser, which is presumably mostly ignored, and definitely ignored during code generation. But wherever it's not ignored there could be a bug

see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41528208/why-is-there-no-foreign-import-prim-unsafe

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Version 8.0.1
Type Bug
TypeOfFailure OtherFailure
Priority normal
Resolution Unresolved
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