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GHC has a wonderful-but-delicate mechanism for building recursive
dictionaries by adding a goal to the "solved dictionaries" before
solving the sub-goals. See Note [Solved dictionaries] in TcSMonad
Ticket #17267 showed that if you use this mechanism for local
/quantified/ constraints you can get a loop -- or even unsafe
coerce. This patch fixes the bug.
Specifically
* Make TcSMonad.addSolvedDict be conditional on using a
/top level/ instance, not a quantified one.
* Moreover, we /also/ don't want to add a solved dict
for equalities (a~b).
* Add lots more comments to Note [Solved dictionaries]
to explain the above cryptic stuff.
* Extend InstanceWhat to identify those strange built-in
equality instances.
A couple of other things along the way
* Delete the unused Type.isIPPred_maybe.
* Stop making addSolvedDict conditional on not being an
impolicit parameter. This comes from way back. But
it's irrelevant now because IP dicts are never solved
via an instance.
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