Provided below is the C implementation of the quick sort sorting algorithm. Modify it, so that low, high and middle are pointers to array elements rather than integers. The split function will need to return a pointer, not an integer.     #include   #define N 10   void quicksort(int a[], int low, int high); int split(int a[], int low, int high);   int main(void) {         int a[N], i;           printf("Enter %d numbers to be sorted: ", N);         for (i=0; i= high) return;         middle = split(a, low, high);         quicksort(a, low, middle - 1);         quicksort(a, middle + 1, high); }   int split(int a[], int low, int high) {         int part_element = a[low];           for (;;) {                while (low < high && part_element <= a[high])                        high--;                if (low >= high) break;                a[low++] = a[high];                  while (low < high && a[low] <= part_element)                        low++;                if (low >= high) break;                a[high--] = a[low];         }         a[high] = part_element;         return(high); }

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Provided below is the C implementation of the quick sort sorting algorithm. Modify it, so that low, high and middle are pointers to array elements rather than integers. The split function will need to return a pointer, not an integer.  

 

#include <stdio.h>

 

#define N 10

 

void quicksort(int a[], int low, int high);

int split(int a[], int low, int high);

 

int main(void) {

        int a[N], i;

 

        printf("Enter %d numbers to be sorted: ", N);

        for (i=0; i<N; i++)

               scanf("%d", &a[i]);

 

        quicksort(a, 0, N-1);

 

        printf("In sorted order: ");

        for (i=0; i<N; i++)

               printf("%d ", a[i]);

        printf("\n");

 

        return(0);

}

 

void quicksort(int a[], int low, int high) {

        int middle;

 

        if (low >= high) return;

        middle = split(a, low, high);

        quicksort(a, low, middle - 1);

        quicksort(a, middle + 1, high);

}

 

int split(int a[], int low, int high) {

        int part_element = a[low];

 

        for (;;) {

               while (low < high && part_element <= a[high])

                       high--;

               if (low >= high) break;

               a[low++] = a[high];

 

               while (low < high && a[low] <= part_element)

                       low++;

               if (low >= high) break;

               a[high--] = a[low];

        }

        a[high] = part_element;

        return(high);

}

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