A Generic Quicksort Implementation in C
As assignment for Data Structures and Algorithms course, we had to work with a modified version of the quicksort algorithm. It came obvious that for modifying a qsort you need to implement it 
It is difficult to find a clear quicksort algorithm implemented, so I wrote it.
Here is the generic C implementation of the Quicksort Algorithm, which sorts an array in place, following the Divide And Conquer design.
Download: quicksort qsort in C language
Interesting methods (look at the source code for comments):
int pivot;
pivot = A[right];
while(1){
while( A[right] > pivot){
right–;
}
while( A[left] < pivot){
left++;
}
if( left < right ){
swap(A,left,right);
}else{
return left;
}
}
}
void quicksort( int A[], int left, int right){
int m;
if( left < right ) {
m = partition( A, left, right);
quicksort( A, left, m-1);
quicksort( A, m+1, right);
}
}
As you see, there is nothing optimized in this implementation. It just looks elegant and easy to be understood.
If you would like to have a more optimized version of this algorithm, take a look at this one.
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