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From: schwarz@a3.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Konrad Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c.moderated,comp.lang.c,comp.std.c
Subject: Re: HELP IN WRITING MY FIRST PROGRAM ASSINGMENT
Date: 26 Feb 1996 07:07:01 -0600
Organization: TU Wien
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In article <4ghoam$dp4@solutions.solon.com>, seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach) writes:
[qsort problem]
|> To clarify: I believe it is incorrect for the library to do so; although
|> it's pretty tenuous, the "which is called with two arguments that point to
|> the objects being compared" seems to mean that to me. My rationale is that
|> the compiler *cannot* prove that the objects do not depend on being parts
|> of a larger array. For instance, consider an array of 200 objects; sort
|> the first 100, with a comparison routine that compares not only the objects,
|> but the objects 100 further in the "real" array. I believe this to be
|> conforming.
The qsort routine rearranges the array passed to it. I don't think it
is possible for the comparision function to sort the real array 100 objects
further on in lockstep with the qsort routine, without relying on the
algorithm of qsort---which is implementation defined. In this
case, the comparision function is not well-defined, since at some call,
a < b, later, a > b.
By the way, what is the relation of the ``quicker sort algorithm'' mentioned
in many manuals to the classic quick sort algorithm? Is it best-of-three?
Konrad Schwarz