FW: [GHC] #4428: Local functions lose their unfoldings

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

| >  Thanks, Simon! Both vector and DPH are littered with local INLINE
| >  functions. Occasionally, they grow big enough for the pragma to matter. I
| >  noticed the bug while investigating an issue that occured in the wild. I
| >  would be very much in favour of merging this if at all possible,
| >  especially because this one is difficult to spot and very hard to work
| >  around in the library.
| 
| I don't know enough to assess how risky the patches are; I thus have no
| opinion either way.
| 
| If we're not sure, perhaps the best compromise is to not merge them at
| this stage of the release process, but to merge them for 7.0.2?

Let's do it in 7.0.2.  We're desperately trying to make a release, and if we keep smuggling in changes it'll keep receding.

We are not releasing DPH etc until December.  When we do I think it's entirely possible that we may need a 7.0.2 GHC release to accompany it.  I'd rather do that than keep delaying 7.0.1

Simon