[GHC] #5837: Context reduction stack overflow can take very long

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#5837: Context reduction stack overflow can take very long
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    Reporter:  dreixel                  |       Owner:                  
        Type:  bug                      |      Status:  new             
    Priority:  normal                   |   Milestone:                  
   Component:  Compiler (Type checker)  |     Version:  7.4.1-rc2       
    Keywords:                           |          Os:  Unknown/Multiple
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple         |     Failure:  None/Unknown    
  Difficulty:  Unknown                  |    Testcase:                  
   Blockedby:                           |    Blocking:                  
     Related:                           |  
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Changes (by simonpj):

  * difficulty:  => Unknown


Comment:

 OK so the underlying problem is #4296, which we do not know how to solve.
 But we hope that we will fairly quickly get some kind of context-stack
 overflow, and you say we aren't.  Worth looking into, thanks.

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