[project @ 2003-02-20 18:33:50 by simonpj]

[ghc-hetmet.git] / ghc / compiler / coreSyn / CoreSyn.lhs

diff --git a/ghc/compiler/coreSyn/CoreSyn.lhs b/ghc/compiler/coreSyn/CoreSyn.lhs
index 12f750f..edee0dd 100644 (file)
--- a/ghc/compiler/coreSyn/CoreSyn.lhs
+++ b/ghc/compiler/coreSyn/CoreSyn.lhs
@@ -109,6 +109,8 @@ data Note
   | InlineMe           -- Instructs simplifer to treat the enclosed expression
                        -- as very small, and inline it at its call sites
 
+  | CoreNote String     -- A generic core annotation, propagated but not used by GHC
+
 -- NOTE: we also treat expressions wrapped in InlineMe as
 -- 'cheap' and 'dupable' (in the sense of exprIsCheap, exprIsDupable)
 -- What this means is that we obediently inline even things that don't
@@ -549,6 +551,7 @@ seqExprs [] = ()
 seqExprs (e:es) = seqExpr e `seq` seqExprs es
 
 seqNote (Coerce t1 t2) = seqType t1 `seq` seqType t2
+seqNote (CoreNote s)   = s `seq` ()
 seqNote other         = ()
 
 seqBndr b = b `seq` ()