Rollup merge of #128226 - oli-obk:option_vs_empty_slice, r=petrochenkov

Remove redundant option that was just encoding that a slice was empty

There is already a sanity check ensuring we don't put empty attribute lists into the HIR:

6ef11b81c2/compiler/rustc_ast_lowering/src/lib.rs (L661-L667)

compiler/rustc_ast_lowering/src/lib.rs

@@ -913,15 +913,15 @@ impl<'a, 'hir> LoweringContext<'a, 'hir> {
         ret
     }
 
-    fn lower_attrs(&mut self, id: HirId, attrs: &[Attribute]) -> Option<&'hir [Attribute]> {
+    fn lower_attrs(&mut self, id: HirId, attrs: &[Attribute]) -> &'hir [Attribute] {
         if attrs.is_empty() {
-            None
+            &[]
         } else {
             debug_assert_eq!(id.owner, self.current_hir_id_owner);
             let ret = self.arena.alloc_from_iter(attrs.iter().map(|a| self.lower_attr(a)));
             debug_assert!(!ret.is_empty());
             self.attrs.insert(id.local_id, ret);
-            Some(ret)
+            ret
         }
     }