Thread: templated quick sort error

Hey there. I'm getting some odd errors trying to work on a quick sort example. It seems like I'm not using my templated parameters correctly. It's making T an int* when I want T to be just int. I thought by using <class T> and <T* arr ... I would be able to get a pointer of type T. When I call quick sort I'm passing a reference to T, so that I can change the values in the sorted arrays. I'm guessing this is the error, but ... yeah. I've rambled enough.

-edit-

So, in case anyone googles for these errors ...

don't pass arrays by address into templated functions. The pointers seem to work just fine.

Problem solved.

Code:

"exampleSort.c", line 88: error: initialization with "{...}" expected for
          aggregate object
        T pivot = array[startIndex];//pivot element is the leftmost element
                  ^
          detected during instantiation of
                    "void QuickSort(T *, int, int) [with T=int [10]]"

"exampleSort.c", line 95: error: no instance of function template "SplitArray"
          matches the argument list
            argument types are: (int (*)[10], int [10], int, int)
                splitPoint = SplitArray(array, pivot, startIndex, endIndex);
                             ^
          detected during instantiation of
                    "void QuickSort(T *, int, int) [with T=int [10]]"

"exampleSort.c", line 99: error: expression must be a modifiable lvalue
                array[splitPoint] = pivot;
                ^
          detected during instantiation of
                    "void QuickSort(T *, int, int) [with T=int [10]]"

You can pass arrays by address into templated functions.
Code, please.