Sylvain Henry authored 2 years ago and Marge Bot committed 2 years ago

ghc-bignum needs a way to raise numerical exceptions defined in base
package. At the time we used FFI calls into primops defined in the RTS.
These FFI calls had to be wrapped into hacky bottoming functions because
"foreign import prim" syntax doesn't support giving a bottoming demand
to the foreign call (cf #16929).

These hacky wrapper functions trip up the JavaScript backend (#21078)
because they are polymorphic in their return type. This commit
replaces them with primops very similar to raise# but raising predefined
exceptions.