Quicksort in x86

This project is a x86 implementation of the Quicksort.

Instructions

Converting quickSort.asm into executable quickSort.o

nasm -f elf32 quickSort.asm -o quickSort.o

Using gcc to compile the object file into binary

gcc -m32 -fno-pic quickSort.o -o quickSort

Runing quickSort (up to 1000 integers as parameters are allowed):

./quickSort -98 55 66 -24 74 65 0 99

Or using the auto_test.sh bash script to do all the things in one step:

./auto_test.sh

Degugging:

gdb quickSort

Credit

The code is based on a question on stackoverflow, asked by pushebp and answered by davmac. Woolo implements the additional functions and comments, which includes:

1. Accepting numbers as arguments from command line.
2. Being able to sort negative numbers as well.
3. Printing out the original input and sorted output
4. More comments for explaination.