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Commit d5773a49 authored by Simon Peyton Jones's avatar Simon Peyton Jones
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Teach DmdAnal that coercions are value arguments!

The demand analyser was treating coercion args like type args,
which meant that the arguments in a strictness signature got
out of step with the arguments of a call.  Result chaos and
disaster.  Trac #10288 showed it up.

It's hard to get this bug to show up in practice because
 - functions abstracted over coercions are usually abstracted
   over *boxed* coercions
 - we don't currently unbox a boxed-coercion arg because it's
   GADT (I see how to fix this too)

But after floating, optimisation, and so on, Trac #10288 did
get a function abstracted over an unboxed coercion, and then
the -flate-dmd-anal pass went wrong.

I don't think I can come up with a test case, but I don't think
it matters too much.

Still to come
 - Fix a second bug, namely that coercion variables are wrongly
   marked as absent because DmdAnal doesn't check the the free
   variables of casts. I think this never bites in practice
   (see the follow-up commit)

 - Make GADT products work with strictness analysis
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