[GHC] #9038: Foreign calls don't make their arguments look strict

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#9038: Foreign calls don't make their arguments look strict
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              Reporter:  tibbe       |            Owner:
                  Type:  bug         |           Status:  infoneeded
              Priority:  normal      |        Milestone:
             Component:  Compiler    |          Version:  7.8.2
            Resolution:              |         Keywords:
      Operating System:              |     Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
  Unknown/Multiple                   |       Difficulty:  Unknown
       Type of failure:              |       Blocked By:
  None/Unknown                       |  Related Tickets:  1592
             Test Case:              |
              Blocking:              |
Differential Revisions:              |
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Changes (by rwbarton):

 * status:  new => infoneeded


Comment:

 tibbe's and Simon's cores look identical to me modulo suppressions and
 alpha-renaming. The only thing that sounds potentially wrong to me here is
 the behavior of tibbe's original function with `evaluate val`, but it's
 hard to tell without the actual function and Core output.

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