UNPACK support for sum types
Currently the pragma only supports single-constructor types. So in the following example it will simply be ignored:
data A =
A1 Char |
A2 {-# UNPACK #-} !B
data B =
B1 Int |
B2 Bool
However the problem seems to be easily solvable by denormalizing the type A to something like the following during unpacking:
data A =
A1 Char |
A2_1 Int | -- from B1
A2_2 Bool -- from B2
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| Version | 7.8.2 |
| Type | FeatureRequest |
| TypeOfFailure | OtherFailure |
| Priority | normal |
| Resolution | Unresolved |
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