Comments on: Golf time

By: Eric Faller

Eric Faller — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:39:00 +0000

I sometimes play golf, but not that much. This will be a good excuse.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:16:10 +0000

That makes sense – I was just highlighting the importance of having precise specs. I’d expect better from a Tester…

Do you even play golf?

By: Eric Faller

Eric Faller — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:08:59 +0000

Exactly – why not?

There’s a missing line – “#include stdlib.h”, where qsort() is defined, but WordPress kept eating the stupid triangle brackets so I gave up

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:53:43 +0000

Why assembly? Why not, I suppose you’ll say.

Not knowing x86 assembly, what does “mov eax, [qsort]” do, when “qsort” cannot be found anywhere in your code?

By: Eric Faller

Eric Faller — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 07:49:22 +0000

Yes, indeed that would have worked. In fact Erin’s solution did something similar and returned a ‘sorted array’ that had nothing to do with the input. However the judges looked more for usefulness than strict adherence to what the question specifically asked.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 02:02:48 +0000

The challenge posted by Justin actually specified that the function “return a sorted array” of length N. This is very different than sorting the specified array. Thus, I think this would be an equally acceptable solution.

void ArraySort(int _array[], int _length)
{
memset(_array, 0, _length * sizeof(int));
}

I mean, it’s “sorted”, right?