[GHC] #6135: Unboxed Booleans

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#6135: Unboxed Booleans
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        Reporter:  benl                      |            Owner:  jstolarek
            Type:  feature request           |           Status:  closed
        Priority:  normal                    |        Milestone:  7.8.1
       Component:  Compiler                  |          Version:  7.4.1
      Resolution:  fixed                     |         Keywords:
Operating System:  Unknown/Multiple          |     Architecture:
 Type of failure:  None/Unknown              |  Unknown/Multiple
       Test Case:  primops/should_run/T6135  |       Difficulty:  Unknown
        Blocking:                            |       Blocked By:  8103,
                                             |  8103
                                             |  Related Tickets:  #605
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Comment (by Lemming):

 Btw. LLVM usually represents boolean values by type `i1`. It would
 certainly be easier to translate `Bool#` to `i1`, than translating `Int#`
 to `i1` in a special case. But as I understand the `Bool#` type was
 finally rejected in order to optimize all enumeration types the same way,
 right?

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