c - Flatten a Tree into an Array -

i looking best way place tree array

the idea follow principle : array implementation of trees i'am stuck on how know nodes children , nodes @ same level, because i'am not using binary tree.

i might have store ascii can't allow arrays of 256 pointers !

any idea welcome.

the purpose of this, send array (tree) gpu, instead of using structures.

well, here idea of converting tree array.

take array of size max_val, total number of nodes in tree. type of array should same of node 1 field. index value parent. store each node in way. store root node @ first position. 1. child nodes of node stored subsequently field storing 1 (since root stored).

apply procedure on nodes , done. can tree, simple recursive call on each node.

hope helps. :) :)