[commit: ghc] wip/ghc-8.0-det: Make absentError not depend on uniques (982eff5)

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On branch  : wip/ghc-8.0-det
Link       : http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/982eff5e1a16f2620e1ec1c568a27277509df790/ghc

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commit 982eff5e1a16f2620e1ec1c568a27277509df790
Author: Bartosz Nitka <niteria at gmail.com>
Date:   Thu May 12 05:42:21 2016 -0700

    Make absentError not depend on uniques
    
    As explained in the comment it will cause changes in
    inlining if we don't suppress them.
    
    Test Plan: ./validate
    
    Reviewers: bgamari, austin, simonpj, goldfire, simonmar
    
    Reviewed By: simonmar
    
    Subscribers: thomie
    
    Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D2203
    
    GHC Trac Issues: #4012


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982eff5e1a16f2620e1ec1c568a27277509df790
 compiler/stranal/WwLib.hs | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/compiler/stranal/WwLib.hs b/compiler/stranal/WwLib.hs
index 1472ead..09bc204 100644
--- a/compiler/stranal/WwLib.hs
+++ b/compiler/stranal/WwLib.hs
@@ -757,7 +757,14 @@ mk_absent_let dflags arg
   where
     arg_ty  = idType arg
     abs_rhs = mkRuntimeErrorApp aBSENT_ERROR_ID arg_ty msg
-    msg     = showSDoc dflags (ppr arg <+> ppr (idType arg))
+    msg     = showSDoc (gopt_set dflags Opt_SuppressUniques)
+                       (ppr arg <+> ppr (idType arg))
+              -- We need to suppress uniques here because otherwise they'd
+              -- end up in the generated code as strings. This is bad for
+              -- determinism, because with different uniques the strings
+              -- will have different lengths and hence different costs for
+              -- the inliner leading to different inlining.
+              -- See also Note [Unique Determinism] in Unique
 
 mk_seq_case :: Id -> CoreExpr -> CoreExpr
 mk_seq_case arg body = Case (Var arg) (sanitiseCaseBndr arg) (exprType body) [(DEFAULT, [], body)]