Binary Tree Maximum Path Sum

 1 /**
 2  * Definition for binary tree
 3  * struct TreeNode {
 4  *     int val;
 5  *     TreeNode *left;
 6  *     TreeNode *right;
 7  *     TreeNode(int x) : val(x), left(NULL), right(NULL) {}
 8  * };
 9  */
10 class Solution {
11 public:
12     int max(int a, int b)
13     {
14         return a > b? a : b;
15     }
16 
17     int maxPathSum(TreeNode *root) {
18         if (!root)
19             return 0;
20         int val,ll,rr;
21         ll = rr = 0;
22         val = -65535;
23         if (root->left)
24         {
25             val = max(val,maxPathSum(root->left));
26             ll = max(0,root->left->val);
27         }
28         if (root->right)
29         {
30             val = max(val,maxPathSum(root->right));
31             rr = max(0,root->right->val);
32         }
33         val = max(val,root->val + ll + rr);
34         root->val += max(ll,rr);
35         return val;
36     }
37 };