fromInteger :: Integer -> Int should fail on overflow

fromInteger 4000000000 :: Int gives -294967296

This is bad; it should really raise an exception.

I believe this is the case with all versions of GHC

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fromInteger where the destination type is Int has well 
defined behaviour on overflow, this is now documented in 
the User's Guide.

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