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    Add Int8# and Word8# · 2c959a18
    Michal Terepeta authored and Ben Gamari's avatar Ben Gamari committed
    This is the first step of implementing:
    https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/74
    
    The main highlights/changes:
    
        primops.txt.pp gets two new sections for two new primitive types for
        signed and unsigned 8-bit integers (Int8# and Word8 respectively) along
        with basic arithmetic and comparison operations. PrimRep/RuntimeRep get
        two new constructors for them. All of the primops translate into the
        existing MachOPs.
    
        For CmmCalls the codegen will now zero-extend the values at call
        site (so that they can be moved to the right register) and then truncate
        them back their original width.
    
        x86 native codegen needed some updates, since it wasn't able to deal
        with the new widths, but all the changes are quite localized. LLVM
        backend seems to just work.
    
    This is the second attempt at merging this, after the first attempt in
    D4475 had to be backed out due to regressions on i386.
    
    Bumps binary submodule.
    
    Signed-off-by: Michal Terepeta <michal.t...
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