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Reduces wobble in error messages, and is better for the programmer

Fixes Trac #6020

That in turn means that you can derive Show etc in other modules,
fixing Trac #6031

It allows you to do
    (high, low) `quotRem` d
provided high < d.

Currently only has an inefficient fallback implementation.

Xcode 4.3 installs the command line tools in a different location as earlier versions of Xcode. With the bootstrapping info, the build fails if the bootstrap compiler was built with an older version of Xcode.

The trouble here is that given

    {-# LANGUAGE DataKinds, TypeFamilies #-}
    data instance Foo a = Bar (Bar a)

we want to get a sensible message that we can't use the promoted 'Bar'
constructor until after its definition; it's a staging error.  Bud the
staging mechanism that we use for vanilla data declarations don't work
here.

Solution is to perform strongly-connected component analysis on the
instance declarations. But that in turn means that we need to track
free-variable information on more HsSyn declarations, which is why
so many files are touched.  All the changes are boiler-platey except
the ones in TcInstDcls.

Not only does this fix Trac #5853, but it also eliminate
the horrid SimplEqsOnly part of the constraint simplifier.

The new plan is described in TcRules
 Note [Simplifying RULE constraints]

There was an ASSERT which does not hold during type checking (and
should not) which is later checked by Core Lint

Use a free monad to specify the assembling procedure, so that it can be
run multiple times without producing side effects.

This paves the way for a more general implementation of variable-sized
instructions, since we need to dry-run the bytecode assembler to
determine the size of the operands for some instructions.

The bytecode generator used to keep track of the stack depth with a
16-bit counter, which could overflow for very large BCOs, resulting in
incorrect bytecode.

This commit switches to a word-sized counter, and eagerly panics
whenever an operand is too big, instead of truncating the result.

This allows us to work around the 16-bit limitation in the case of SLIDE
instructions, since we can simply factor it into multiple SLIDEs with
smaller arguments.

This is the last major addition to the kind-polymorphism story,
by allowing (Trac #5938)

 type family F a   -- F :: forall k. k -> *
 data T a          -- T :: forall k. k -> *
 type instance F (T (a :: Maybe k)) = Char

The new thing is the explicit 'k' in the type signature on 'a',
which itself is inside a type pattern for F.

Main changes are:

* HsTypes.HsBSig now has a *pair* (kvs, tvs) of binders,
  the kind variables and the type variables

* extractHsTyRdrTyVars returns a pair (kvs, tvs)
  and the function itself has moved from RdrHsSyn to RnTypes

* Quite a bit of fiddling with
     TcHsType.tcHsPatSigType and tcPatSig
  which have become a bit simpler.  I'm still not satisfied
  though.  There's some consequential fiddling in TcRules too.

* Removed the unused HsUtils.collectSigTysFromPats

There's a consequential wibble to Haddock too

A long-standing and egregious bug in the worker/wrapper code meant
that some functions with the CPR property weren't getting a CPR
w/w. And that had the effect of making a tail-recursive function not
tail recursive.  As well as increasing allocation.

Fixes Trac #5920, and #5997.

Nofib results (highlights):

        Program           Size    Allocs   Runtime   Elapsed  TotalMem
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         boyer2          -0.1%    -15.3%      0.01      0.01     +0.0%
        mandel2          -0.0%     -8.1%      0.01      0.01     +0.0%
           para          -0.1%    -11.8%     -7.9%     -7.8%     +0.0%
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
            Min          -0.1%    -15.3%     -7.9%     -7.8%    -33.3%
            Max          +0.0%     +0.2%     +6.3%     +6.3%     +3.7%
 Geometric Mean          -0.0%     -0.4%     +0.1%     +0.1%     -0.5%

Looks like a clear win.  And I have not even recompiled the libraries, so
it'll probably be a bit better in the ed.

This change allows a top-level instance to be used even if there is
a (potentially) overlapping local given.  Which isn't fab, but it is
what IncoherentInstances is *for*.

This fixes the bug part of Trac #6002.

Two problems, for now at any rate
  a) Breaks the build with lots of errors like
        No instance for (Show (IO ())) arising from a use of `print'
  b) Discussion of the approache hasn't converged yet
     (Simon M had a number of suggestions)

This reverts commit eecd7c98.

This command allows you to lift user stmts in GHCi into an IO monad
that implements the GHC.GHCi.GHCiSandboxIO type class. This allows for
easy sandboxing of GHCi using :runmonad and Safe Haskell.

Longer term it would be nice to allow a more general model for the Monad
than GHCiSandboxIO but delaying this for the moment.