[GHC] #16310: Program fails with "Impossible case alternative" when optimized

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#16310: Program fails with "Impossible case alternative" when optimized
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        Reporter:  RyanGlScott       |                Owner:  (none)
            Type:  bug               |               Status:  closed
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:
       Component:  Compiler          |              Version:  8.6.3
      Resolution:  wontfix           |             Keywords:  TypeInType
Operating System:  Unknown/Multiple  |         Architecture:
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 Type of failure:  Runtime crash     |            Test Case:
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Comment (by simonpj):

 `unsafeCoerce` is certainly dangerous, as its name suggests!  Here `axiom`
 seems to claim that for all types `a` and `b`, the two are equal.  That
 might lead to a seg-faolt; here it leads to "unreachable" code being
 reached.

 Or is there more to it than that?

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