[lldb/libc++] Simplify the libc++ string formatter
Precise string layout has changed a lot recently, but a long of these changes did not have any effect on the usages of its fields -- e.g. introduction/removal of an anonymous struct or union does not change the way one can access the field in C++. Our name-based variable lookup rules (deliberately) copy the C++ semantics, which means these changes would have been invisible to the them, if only we were using name-based lookup. This patch replaces the opaque child index accesses with name-based lookups, which allows us to greatly simplify the data formatter code. The formatter continues to support all the string layouts that it previously supported. It is unclear why the formatter was not using this approach from the beginning. I would speculate that the original version was working around some (now fixed) issue with anonymous members or base classes, and the subsequent revisions stuck with that approach out of inertia. Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D129490
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