C Program to Implement Odd Even Sort

This C Program implement oddeven sort.

Here is source code of the C Program to implement oddeven sort. The C program is successfully compiled and run on a Linux system. The program output is also shown below.

  1. /*
  2.  * C Program to Implement Oddeven Sort 
  3.  */
  4. #include <stdio.h>
  5. #define MAX 7
  6.  
  7. void swap(int *,int *);
  8. void oddeven_sort(int *);
  9.  
  10. void main()
  11. {
  12.     int a[MAX], i;
  13.  
  14.     printf("enter the elements in to the matrix :");
  15.     for (i = 0;i < MAX;i++)
  16.     {
  17.         scanf("%d", &a[i]);
  18.     }
  19.     printf("sorted elements are :\n");
  20.     oddeven_sort(a);
  21.     for (i = 0;i < MAX;i++)
  22.     {
  23.         printf(" %d", a[i]);
  24.     }
  25. }
  26.  
  27. /* swaps the elements */
  28. void swap(int * x, int * y)
  29. {
  30.     int temp;
  31.  
  32.     temp = *x;
  33.     *x = *y;
  34.     *y = temp; 
  35. }
  36.  
  37. /* sorts the array using oddeven algorithm */
  38. void oddeven_sort(int * x)
  39. {
  40.     int sort = 0, i;
  41.  
  42.     while (!sort)
  43.     {
  44.         sort = 1;
  45.         for (i = 1;i < MAX;i += 2)
  46.         {
  47.             if (x[i] > x[i+1])
  48.             {
  49.                 swap(&x[i], &x[i+1]);
  50.                 sort = 0;
  51.             }
  52.         }
  53.         for (i = 0;i < MAX - 1;i += 2)
  54.         {
  55.             if (x[i] > x[i + 1])
  56.             {
  57.                 swap(&x[i], &x[i + 1]);
  58.                 sort = 0;
  59.             }
  60.         }
  61.     }
  62. }

$ cc oddevensort.c
/* average case */
$ a.out
enter the elements in to the matrix :7 8 3 2 5 4 9
sorted elements are :
 2 3 4 5 7 8 9
 
/* best case */
$ a.out
enter the elements in to the matrix :1 2 3 4 5 6 7
sorted elements are :
 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
 
/* worst case */
$ a.out
enter the elements in to the matrix :7 6 5 4 3 2 1
sorted elements are :
 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

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