Note [Wired-in Ids]

GHC/Types/Id/Make.hs:106 compiler

A "wired-in" Id can be referred to directly in GHC (e.g. 'voidPrimId')
rather than by looking it up its name in some environment or fetching
it from an interface file.

There are several reasons why an Id might appear in the wiredInIds:

* ghcPrimIds: see Note [ghcPrimIds (aka pseudoops)]

* magicIds: see Note [magicIds]

* errorIds, defined in GHC.Core.Make.
  These error functions (e.g. rUNTIME_ERROR_ID) are wired in
  because the desugarer generates code that mentions them directly

In all cases except ghcPrimIds, there is a definition site in a
library module, which may be called (e.g. in higher order situations);
but the wired-in version means that the details are never read from
that module's interface file; instead, the full definition is right
here.

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