Ben Gamari authored Sep 13, 2017 and Ben Gamari committed Sep 13, 2017

The demand signature of the retry# primop previously had a Diverges
result.  However, this caused the demand analyser to conclude that a
program of the shape,

    catchRetry# (... >> retry#)

would diverge. Of course, this is plainly wrong; catchRetry#'s sole
reason to exist is to "catch" the "exception" thrown by retry#. While
catchRetry#'s demand signature correctly had the ExnStr flag set on its
first argument, indicating that it should catch divergence, the logic
associated with this flag doesn't apply to Diverges results. This
resulted in #14171.

The solution here is to treat the divergence of retry# as an exception.
Namely, give it a result type of ThrowsExn rather than Diverges.

Updates stm submodule for tests.

Test Plan: Validate with T14171

Reviewers: simonpj, austin

Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie

GHC Trac Issues: #14171, #8091

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3919