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The tiniest C sort function?

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Re: The tiniest C sort function?

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Why the hell is recursion considered cheating?

Use of recursion isn't the part that's cheating. It's that the recursive function uses a dummy argument to avoid allocating a temporary variable so it doesn't have the same signature as the other functions and it requires the caller to allocate space for the dummy variable.