6-1 Iterative Mergesort

How would you implement mergesort without using recursion?

The idea of iterative mergesort is to start from N sorted sublists of length 1, and each time to merge a pair of adjacent sublists until one sorted list is obtained. You are supposed to implement the key function of merging.

Format of functions:

void merge_pass( ElementType list[], ElementType sorted[], int N, int length );

The function merge_pass performs one pass of the merge sort that merges adjacent pairs of sublists from list into sorted. N is the number of elements in the list and length is the length of the sublists.

Sample program of judge:

#include <stdio.h>

#define ElementType int
#define MAXN 100

void merge_pass( ElementType list[], ElementType sorted[], int N, int length );

void output( ElementType list[], int N )
{
    int i;
    for (i=0; i<N; i++) printf("%d ", list[i]);
    printf("\n");
}

void  merge_sort( ElementType list[],  int N )
{
    ElementType extra[MAXN];  /* the extra space required */
    int  length = 1;  /* current length of sublist being merged */
    while( length < N ) { 
        merge_pass( list, extra, N, length ); /* merge list into extra */
        output( extra, N );
        length *= 2;
        merge_pass( extra, list, N, length ); /* merge extra back to list */
        output( list, N );
        length *= 2;
    }
} 


int main()
{
    int N, i;
    ElementType A[MAXN];

    scanf("%d", &N);
    for (i=0; i<N; i++) scanf("%d", &A[i]);
    merge_sort(A, N);
    output(A, N);

    return 0;
}

/* Your function will be put here */

Sample Input:

10
8 7 9 2 3 5 1 6 4 0

Sample Output:

7 8 2 9 3 5 1 6 0 4 
2 7 8 9 1 3 5 6 0 4 
1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 0 4 
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 

void merge_pass( ElementType list[] ,ElementType sorted[],int N,int length)
{
   
   for(int i = 0 ; i < N ; i = i + 2*length)
   {
      int num1 = i;
      int num2 = i+length;
      int num = i;
      int last ;
       if(i+2*length >= N )
           last = N;
       else
           last = i+2*length;
      while(num1 < i+length && num2 < last && num1 < N && num2 < N)
      {
            if(list[num1] < list[num2])
                sorted[num++] = list[num1++];
            else
                sorted[num++] = list[num2++];
      }
      while(num1 < i+length)
         sorted[num++] = list[num1++];
      while(num2 < last )
         sorted[num++] = list[num2++];
   }
}