Note [Do not unify Givens]

GHC/Tc/Solver/Equality.hs:2812 compiler

Consider this GADT match
   data T a where
      T1 :: T Int
      ...

   f x = case x of
           T1 -> True
           ...

So we get f :: T alpha[1] -> beta[1]
          x :: T alpha[1]
and from the T1 branch we get the implication
   forall[2] (alpha[1] ~ Int) => beta[1] ~ Bool

Now, clearly we don't want to unify alpha:=Int!  Yet at the moment we
process [G] alpha[1] ~ Int, we don't have any given-equalities in the
inert set, and hence there are no given equalities to make alpha untouchable.

NB: if it were alpha[2] ~ Int, this argument wouldn't hold.  But that
never happens: invariant (GivenInv) in Note [TcLevel invariants]
in GHC.Tc.Utils.TcType.

Simple solution: never unify in Givens!

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