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Simon Peyton Jones
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Ticket #19360 showed up a terrible bug in the occurrence analyser, in a situation like this Rec { f = g ; g = ..f... {-# RULE g .. = ...f... #-} } Then f was postInlineUnconditionally, but not in the RULE (which is simplified first), so we had a RULE mentioning a variable that was not in scope. This led me to review (again) the subtle loop-breaker stuff in the occurrence analyser. The actual changes are few, and are largely simplifications. I did a /lot/ of comment re-organising though. There was an unexpected amount of fallout. * Validation failed when compiling the stage2 compiler with profiling on. That turned to tickle a second latent bug in the same OccAnal code (at least I think it was always there), which led me to simplify still further; see Note [inl_fvs] in GHC.Core.Opt.OccurAnal. * But that in turn let me to some strange behaviour in CSE when ticks are in the picture, which I duly fixed. See Note [Dealing with ticks] in GHC.Core.Opt.CSE. * Then I got an ASSERT failure in CoreToStg, which again seems to be a latent bug. See Note [Ticks in applications] in GHC.CoreToStg * I also made one unforced change: I now simplify the RHS of a RULE in the same way as the RHS of a stable unfolding. This can allow a trivial binding to disappear sooner than otherwise, and I don't think it has any downsides. The change is in GHC.Core.Opt.Simplify.simplRules.