Hello everybody, I'm glad to announce that I performed the suggested backporting as part of my work for FP Complete! With the help of Eric (thanks for your support in #ghc!) we now have this patch for 7.10 and 7.8. As promised, here are the commits: * https://github.com/nh2/ghc/commits/ghc-7.10.1-release-srcloc-ip * https://github.com/nh2/ghc/commits/ghc-7.8.4-release-srcloc-ip You can see in the history that I only needed to cherry-pick "Make the location in TcLclEnv and CtLoc into a RealSrcSpan" as a dependent commit, so the changes beyond the actual feature are fairly minimal. For 7.8, I had to do a little more cleanup, see the "Use wrapIPTc instead of coercionToTcCoercion on wrapIP" commit. Regarding the commit of the feature itself, I had to do quite some merge resolution, especially due to the (lack of) the -fwarn-redundant- constraints patch https://github.com/nh2/ghc/commit/32973bf3 (alias "but it was Christmas, so I did some recreational programming that went much further"). However, the type checker had a strong opinion of what the right merge decision was, at least for the 7.10 backport; for 7.8 there was an ambiguity (whether to return `Nothing` or `Just` in `interactDict`), which was resolved with Eric's help. Please be invited to review the two commits. We would like to make 7.8 and 7.10 binaries with this feature available as well, and will do so after getting a review! Niklas