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Instantiate GND bindings with an explicit type signature

Summary:
Before, we were using visible type application to apply
impredicative types to `coerce` in
`GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving`-generated bindings. This approach breaks
down when combined with `QuantifiedConstraints` in certain ways,
which #14883 and #15290 provide examples of. See
Note [GND and QuantifiedConstraints] for all the gory details.

To avoid this issue, we instead use an explicit type signature to
instantiate each GND binding, and use that to bind any type variables
that might be bound by a class method's type signature. This reduces
the need to impredicative type applications, and more importantly,
makes the programs from #14883 and #15290 work again.

Test Plan: make test TEST="T15290b T15290c T15290d T14883"

Reviewers: simonpj, bgamari

Reviewed By: simonpj

Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie, carter

GHC Trac Issues: #14883, #15290

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4895
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