Rodrigo Mesquita pushed to branch wip/spj-reinstallable-base2 at Glasgow Haskell Compiler / GHC

Commits:

• 0bf8b3ed
  by Simon Peyton Jones at 2026-05-08T16:38:04+01:00

  Better handling of krepStar etc
  
  See https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/15899#note_673935
  
  Comments and notes
  
  Also, happens to,
  
  Fix #14480
  
  TODO: Finish this patch and merge it first
  
  clean
  
  Mv instance
  
  get rid binary.typeable
  
  cleanup
  

• c9ae2411
  by Rodrigo Mesquita at 2026-05-08T16:44:54+01:00

  fixup! Better handling of krepStar etc
  

• 08091e50
  by Rodrigo Mesquita at 2026-05-08T17:25:29+01:00

  The problem with unsafeCoerce# is probably the tcLookupGlobal changed to tcLookupGlobalKnownKeyName? I am unsure
  

• 95664bfb
  by Rodrigo Mesquita at 2026-05-11T09:58:45+01:00

  Revert "unsafeCoercePrimName"
  
  This reverts commit 25497cb478856fc82cdc5277f85eebb66624a619.
  

• 05a31853
  by Rodrigo Mesquita at 2026-05-11T10:42:44+01:00

  Merge G.I.CString into G.I.Types
  

• a77cdf38
  by Rodrigo Mesquita at 2026-05-11T10:49:04+01:00

  fix duplicate name. Bytes is not exported. OK
  

• 5e83557e
  by Rodrigo Mesquita at 2026-05-11T11:39:20+01:00

  fixes
  

• 1d17216c
  by Rodrigo Mesquita at 2026-05-11T11:59:11+01:00

  progress starKindRepName
  

39 changed files:

• compiler/GHC/Builtin/KnownKeys.hs
• compiler/GHC/Builtin/KnownOccs.hs
• compiler/GHC/Builtin/Modules.hs
• compiler/GHC/HsToCore.hs
• compiler/GHC/Iface/Syntax.hs
• compiler/GHC/Rename/Expr.hs
• compiler/GHC/Tc/Instance/Typeable.hs
• compiler/GHC/Tc/Module.hs
• compiler/GHC/Tc/Solver/Dict.hs
• compiler/GHC/Tc/Solver/Monad.hs
• compiler/GHC/Tc/Utils/Concrete.hs
• compiler/GHC/Utils/Binary.hs
• − compiler/GHC/Utils/Binary/Typeable.hs
• compiler/ghc.cabal.in
• libraries/base/src/GHC/Base.hs
• libraries/base/src/GHC/Essentials.hs
• libraries/ghc-internal/ghc-internal.cabal.in
• libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/Base.hs
• libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/Bignum/Backend/Check.hs
• libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/Bignum/Backend/FFI.hs
• libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/Bignum/Backend/GMP.hs
• libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/Bignum/Backend/Native.hs
• − libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/CString.hs
• libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/Classes.hs
• libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/Control/Exception/Base.hs
• libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/Data/Typeable/Internal.hs
• libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/Encoding/UTF8.hs
• libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/Exts.hs
• libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/IO/Exception.hs
• libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/JS/Prim.hs
• libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/Pack.hs
• libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/Show.hs
• libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/System/Posix/Internals.hs
• libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/TH/Lift.hs
• libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/Types.hs
• libraries/ghc-prim/ghc-prim.cabal
• rts/include/rts/RtsToHsIface.h
• testsuite/tests/count-deps/CountDepsAst.stdout
• testsuite/tests/count-deps/CountDepsParser.stdout

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