[lldb][Format] Unwrap references to C-strings when printing C-string summaries (#174398) Depends on: * https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/174385 (only last commit is relevant for this review) The `${var%s}` format isn't capable of formatting references to C-strings. So the summary for those becomes `<no value available>`. This patch prevents the system C-string formatter from applying to references, which means the summary for such types will be empty. This prompts LLDB to instead print the child, which is the referenced C-string. Before: ``` (lldb) v ref (const char *&) ref = 0x000000016fdfe960 <no value available> ``` After: ``` (lldb) v ref (const char *&) ref = 0x000000016fdfec40 (&ref = "hi") ``` An alternative would be to support references in the `ValueObject` dump methods. We assume C-string are pointers/arrays in a lot of places, so such a fix would be a more intrusive undertaking, and I'm not sure we would want to support references there in the first place. So for now I went with the fallback logic in this PR.
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