- tcg_keep :: NameSet, -- Set of names to keep alive, and to expose in the
- -- interface file (but not to export to the user).
- -- These are typically extra definitions generated from
- -- data type declarations which would otherwise be
- -- dropped as dead code.
+ tcg_keep :: TcRef NameSet, -- Locally-defined top-level names to keep alive
+ -- "Keep alive" means give them an Exported flag, so
+ -- that the simplifier does not discard them as dead
+ -- code, and so that they are exposed in the interface file
+ -- (but not to export to the user).
+ --
+ -- Some things, like dict-fun Ids and default-method Ids are
+ -- "born" with the Exported flag on, for exactly the above reason,
+ -- but some we only discover as we go. Specifically:
+ -- * The to/from functions for generic data types
+ -- * Top-level variables appearing free in the RHS of an orphan rule
+ -- * Top-level variables appearing free in a TH bracket
+
+ tcg_inst_uses :: TcRef NameSet, -- Home-package Dfuns actually used
+ -- Used to generate version dependencies
+ -- This records usages, rather like tcg_dus, but it has to
+ -- be a mutable variable so it can be augmented
+ -- when we look up an instance. These uses of dfuns are
+ -- rather like the free variables of the program, but
+ -- are implicit instead of explicit.
+
+ tcg_th_used :: TcRef Bool, -- True <=> Template Haskell syntax used
+ -- We need this so that we can generate a dependency on the
+ -- Template Haskell package, becuase the desugarer is going to
+ -- emit loads of references to TH symbols. It's rather like
+ -- tcg_inst_uses; the reference is implicit rather than explicit,
+ -- so we have to zap a mutable variable.