[GHC] #6135: Unboxed Booleans

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#6135: Unboxed Booleans
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    Reporter:  benl              |       Owner:  jstolarek       
        Type:  feature request   |      Status:  patch           
    Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  7.8.1           
   Component:  Compiler          |     Version:  7.4.1           
    Keywords:                    |          Os:  Unknown/Multiple
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Failure:  None/Unknown    
  Difficulty:  Unknown           |    Testcase:                  
   Blockedby:                    |    Blocking:                  
     Related:  #605              |  
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Comment(by simonpj):

 Good idea (giving new names to the new ops).

 I've remembered why `Word#` is probably the right return type, not `Int#`:
 because we want to perform logical operations like `and` and `or` on the
 result of comparisons, and those work on `Word#` not `Int#`.

 So to me that argues for the primops all returning `Int#`.  Simon M what
 do you say?

 Simon

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