C :: Will Return Root Statement At End Ever Return Value Other Than Value Passed To Function?

I'm writing some functions pertaining to binary trees. I've used recursion once before while learning quicksort but am still quite new and unfamiliar with it. And this is my first time touching a binary tree. So my question: In my addnode function, will the return root statement at the end ever return a value other than the value passed to the function?

Code:

#include <stdlib.h>
struct tnode
{
int data;
struct tnode * left;
struct tnode * right;
}

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