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foldr/single no longer firing in GHC 6.10

consider the following module

module Foo where x = ['x']++"haskell"

when ghc --make -O2 Foo.hs -ddump-simpl-stats is run using GHC 6.8.2, the output show that the foldr/single rule is fired

5 RuleFired
    1 ++
    1 augment/build
    1 foldr/single
    1 unpack
    1 unpack-list

However, I am told that this does not happen in GHC 6.10.2 nor GHC 6.10.3 where foldr/app is fired instead

6 RuleFired
     1 ++
     1 augment/build
     1 fold/build
     1 foldr/app
     1 unpack
     1 unpack-list

Thus it appears that the above module is no longer properly optimized in GHC 6.10

(thanks to dons and Jedai for helping with this)

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Version 6.10.3
Type Bug
TypeOfFailure OtherFailure
Priority normal
Resolution Unresolved
Component Compiler
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