MTREE_PARENT(3)

💖 MTREE_PARENT(3) 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair 🫶 this one lives in the Librecast Programmer's Manual, it's called mtree_parent, and it's literally the shortest glow-up in the whole tree. let's go ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

mtree_parent — return node number of parent node 👑

📚 LIBRARY 📚

Librecast library (liblibrecast, -llibrecast) 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <librecast/mtree.h>

size_t mtree_parent(size_t node);

Compile and link with -llibrecast.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the mtree_nnode function returns the node number of the parent of node. yes bestie, you read that right, it hands you the parent. no drama, no side quests 💅

this calculation is independent of the tree, and it's implemented as a macro. so it's not out here peeking at your tree structure, it's just doing the math, periodt.

nodes are numbered from 0 = root 🌱

🎀 RETURN VALUE 🎀

mtree_parent() returns the number of the parent node. that's the whole vibe 🫶

💀 ERRORS 💀

None. literally none. not a single one. it's giving flawless ✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• mtree_init(3)
• mtree_free(3)
• mtree_build(3)
• mtree_child(3)

ngl the whole tree is a family and this is just the "go ask your parent" function 🌈

LIBRECAST · 2023-07-23 · MTREE_PARENT(3) — that's the version, the date, and the page name bestie, so you know exactly where this lore came from 💖 mwah, go slay your trees 🌸🧚