stat: Work around stack overflow in rustc #15
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Implement parsing of /proc//stat as a function instead of via the
chain!
macro to limit the AST depth in expanded code. This worksaround a stack overflow in some versions of rustc.
There is a performance impact, though a few hundred nanoseconds should
be acceptable in return for working on stable Rust.
Benchmarks were run with nightly-2016-10-28, a recent nightly without
the stack overflow issue.
Fixes #9
Refs rust-lang/rust#35408