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Separate type for cross-crate encoded attributes

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Since Jul 31, 2025.

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As per a suggestion of @lcnr. I've got some ideas on how to do this, but they mostly make sense when all attributes become parsed. At that point I think we can get rid of AttributeKind, and AttributeExt, and instead make one enum (Attribute) where the unparsed tool attributes become just an (uncommon) variant.

Part of the attribute rework: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/131229#issuecomment-2971351163

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