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Previously, the `deriving` machinery was very loosey-goosey about how it used the types of data constructor fields when generating code. It would usually just consult `dataConOrigArgTys`, which returns the _uninstantiated_ field types of each data constructor. Usually, you can get away with this, but issues #20375 and #20387 revealed circumstances where this approach fails. Instead, when generated code for a stock-derived instance `C (T arg_1 ... arg_n)`, one must take care to instantiate the field types of each data constructor with `arg_1 ... arg_n`. The particulars of how this is accomplished is described in the new `Note [Instantiating field types in stock deriving]` in `GHC.Tc.Deriv.Generate`. Some highlights: * `DerivInstTys` now has a new `dit_dc_inst_arg_env :: DataConEnv [Type]` field that caches the instantiated field types of each data constructor. Whenever we need to consult the field types somewhere in `GHC.Tc.Deriv.*` we avoid using `dataConOrigArgTys` and instead look it up in `dit_dc_inst_arg_env`. * Because `DerivInstTys` now stores the instantiated field types of each constructor, some of the details of the `GHC.Tc.Deriv.Generics.mkBindsRep` function were able to be simplified. In particular, we no longer need to apply a substitution to instantiate the field types in a `Rep(1)` instance, as that is already done for us by `DerivInstTys`. We still need a substitution to implement the "wrinkle" section of `Note [Generating a correctly typed Rep instance]`, but the code is nevertheless much simpler than before. * The `tyConInstArgTys` function has been removed in favor of the new `GHC.Core.DataCon.dataConInstUnivs` function, which is really the proper tool for the job. `dataConInstUnivs` is much like `tyConInstArgTys` except that it takes a data constructor, not a type constructor, as an argument, and it adds extra universal type variables from that data constructor at the end of the returned list if need be. `dataConInstUnivs` takes care to instantiate the kinds of the universal type variables at the end, thereby avoiding a bug in `tyConInstArgTys` discovered in ghc/ghc#20387 (comment 377037). Fixes #20375. Fixes #20387.
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