Algorithm to determine if array contains n…n+m?

Question

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Answer 1

Hazzen's algorithm implementation in C

#include

#define swapxor(a,i,j) a[i]^=a[j];a[j]^=a[i];a[i]^=a[j];

int check_ntom(int a[], int n, int m) {
    int i = 0, j = 0;
    for(i = 0; i < m; i++) {
        if(a[i] < n || a[i] >= n+m) return 0;   //invalid entry
        j = a[i] - n;
        while(j != i) {
            if(a[i]==a[j]) return -1;           //bucket already occupied. Dupe.
            swapxor(a, i, j);                   //faster bitwise swap
            j = a[i] - n;
            if(a[i]>=n+m) return 0;             //[NEW] invalid entry
        }
    }
    return 200;                                 //OK
}

int main() {
    int n=5, m=5;
    int a[] = {6, 5, 7, 9, 8};
    int r = check_ntom(a, n, m);
    printf("%d", r);
    return 0;
}

Edit: change made to the code to eliminate illegal memory access.