Auto merge of #131321 - RalfJung:feature-activation, r=nnethercote

terminology: #[feature] *enables* a feature (instead of "declaring" or "activating" it)

Mostly, we currently call a feature that has a corresponding `#[feature(name)]` attribute in the current crate a "declared" feature. I think that is confusing as it does not align with what "declaring" usually means. Furthermore, we *also* refer to `#[stable]`/`#[unstable]` as *declaring* a feature (e.g. in [these diagnostics](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/f25e5abea229a6b6aa77b45e21cb784e785c6040/compiler/rustc_passes/messages.ftl#L297-L301)), which aligns better with what "declaring" usually means. To make things worse, the functions  `tcx.features().active(...)` and  `tcx.features().declared(...)` both exist and they are doing almost the same thing (testing whether a corresponding `#[feature(name)]`  exists) except that `active` would ICE if the feature is not an unstable lang feature. On top of this, the callback when a feature is activated/declared is called `set_enabled`, and many comments also talk about "enabling" a feature.

So really, our terminology is just a mess.

I would suggest we use "declaring a feature" for saying that something is/was guarded by a feature (e.g. `#[stable]`/`#[unstable]`), and "enabling a feature" for  `#[feature(name)]`. This PR implements that.

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