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We are now passing this test:
```zig
export fn _start() noreturn {}
```
```
test.zig:1:30: error: expected noreturn, found void
```
I ran into an issue where we get an integer overflow trying to compute
node index offsets from the containing Decl. The problem is that the
parser adds the Decl node after adding the child nodes. For some things,
it is easy to reserve the node index and then set it later, however, for
this case, it is not a trivial code change, because depending on tokens
after parsing the decl determines whether we want to add a new node or
not.
Possible strategies here:
1. Rework the parser code to make sure that Decl nodes are before
children nodes in the AST node array.
2. Use signed integers for Decl node offsets.
3. Just flip the order of subtraction and addition. Expect Decl Node
index to be greater than children Node indexes.
I opted for (3) because it seems like the simplest thing to do. We'll
want to unify the logic for computing the offsets though because if the
logic gets repeated, it will probably get repeated wrong.
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