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Move this iterator to the previous element in the tree and return a reference providing modifiable access to this iterator. The behavior is undefined unless the iterator refers to the past‐the‐end address or the non‐leftmost element in the tree.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_treeiterator.h>`

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