Print ancestors of an element in tree

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/* If target is present in tree, then prints the ancestors
   and returns true, otherwise returns false. */
bool printAncestors(struct node *root, int target)
{
  /* base cases */
  if (root == NULL)
     return false;
 
  if (root->data == target)
     return true;
 
  /* If target is present in either left or right subtree of this node,
     then print this node */
  if ( printAncestors(root->left, target) ||
       printAncestors(root->right, target) )
  {
    cout << root->data << " ";
    return true;
  }
 
  /* Else return false */
  return false;
}