Note [Dead code in CorePrep]

GHC/CoreToStg/Prep.hs:368 compiler 1 ticket

Imagine that we got an input program like this (see #4962):

  f :: Show b => Int -> (Int, b -> Maybe Int -> Int)
  f x = (g True (Just x) + g () (Just x), g)
    where
      g :: Show a => a -> Maybe Int -> Int
      g _ Nothing = x
      g y (Just z) = if z > 100 then g y (Just (z + length (show y))) else g y unknown

After specialisation and SpecConstr, we would get something like this:

  f :: Show b => Int -> (Int, b -> Maybe Int -> Int)
  f x = (g$Bool_True_Just x + g$Unit_Unit_Just x, g)
    where
      {-# RULES g $dBool = g$Bool
                g $dUnit = g$Unit #

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