I was reading the book "Computer Organization and Design" by Patterson and Hennesy (5th Edition) and found this bubble sort code:
void sort (int v[], int n)
{
int i,j;
for (i=0; i<n; i+=1) {
for (j = i-1; j>=0 && v[j] > v[j+1]; j+=1) {
swap(v,j);
}
}
}
void swap (int v[], int k) {
int temp;
temp = v[k];
v[k] = v[k+1];
v[k+1] = temp;
}
I don't understand how this function would sort an array. Especially if the first element of the array is also the largest, it seems to me that the index j
would go out of bounds. Running the code and printing the indices confirmed this.
This is the code I used:
#include <stdio.h>
void swap (int v[], int k) {
int temp;
temp = v[k];
v[k] = v[k+1];
v[k+1] = temp;
}
void sort (int v[], int n)
{
int i,j;
for (i=0; i<n; i+=1) {
printf("%d \n", i);
for (j = i-1; j>=0 && v[j] > v[j+1]; j+=1) {
printf("%d, %d \n", i, j);
swap(v,j);
}
}
}
int main() {
int x[3] = {5,1,2};
int N = 3;
sort(x, N);
for(int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
printf("%d ", x[i]);
}
return 0;
}
This was the result:
/Users/mauritsdescamps/Desktop/test/cmake-build-debug/test
0
1
1, 0
1, 1
1, 2
1, 3
1, 4
2
2, 1
2, 2
2, 3
Process finished with exit code 6
Is there something I am forgetting? If not, I think there must be a mistake in the second loop condition. I have seen other implementations of the algorithm but I want to know how to get this approach to work.
I've tried this code, too. I have compiled it with GCC and somehow it worked for me (the exit status of the program was 0 and the array was sorted correctly). But I also think that their is a problem with the second loop. I would change the j+= 1 instruction into j-=1. Otherwise the second loop could end in an infinite loop. Additionally I would change the i=0 instruction in the first loop into a i=1 instruction, because it would end in an unnecessary iteration.