lldb-formatters: Use StdSliceSyntheticProvider for &str#124500
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&str has associated summary provider which correctly displays string values in debugger, but while working on #124458 I've noticed that a &str inside an enum displays a blob of memory until a 0 is reached (as a c-string) which makes a very bizarre experience when debugging
However there is already StdSliceSyntheticProvider which we use for other slices. This PR enables the same synthetic provider to be used for &str, however the summary provider is still fixed to return the string value
I've added a test
debuginfo/strings-and-strs.rswhich prior to this PR would output the following in LLDB:After this PR it would look the following way: