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Commit d8dbe293 authored by Ryan Scott's avatar Ryan Scott Committed by Ben Gamari
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Fix two pernicious bugs in DeriveAnyClass

The way GHC was handling `DeriveAnyClass` was subtly wrong
in two notable ways:

* In `inferConstraintsDAC`, we were //always// bumping the `TcLevel`
  of newly created unification variables, under the assumption that
  we would always place those unification variables inside an
  implication constraint. But #14932 showed precisely the scenario
  where we had `DeriveAnyClass` //without// any of the generated
  constraints being used inside an implication, which made GHC
  incorrectly believe the unification variables were untouchable.
* Even worse, we were using the generated unification variables from
  `inferConstraintsDAC` in every single iteration of `simplifyDeriv`.
  In #14933, however, we have a scenario where we fill in a
  unification variable with a skolem in one iteration, discard it,
  proceed on to another iteration, use the same unification variable
  (still filled in with the old skolem), and try to unify it with
  a //new// skolem! This results in an utter disaster.

The root of both these problems is `inferConstraintsDAC`. This patch
fixes the issue by no longer generating unification variables
directly in `inferConstraintsDAC`. Instead, we store the original
variables from a generic default type signature in `to_metas`, a new
field of `ThetaOrigin`, and in each iteration of `simplifyDeriv`, we
generate fresh meta tyvars (avoiding the second issue). Moreover,
this allows us to more carefully fine-tune the `TcLevel` under which
we create these meta tyvars, fixing the first issue.

Test Plan: make test TEST="T14932 T14933"

Reviewers: simonpj, bgamari

Reviewed By: simonpj

Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie, carter

GHC Trac Issues: #14932, #14933

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4507

(cherry picked from commit 98930426)
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