MaxCounters_Codility
Task description
You are given N counters, initially set to 0, and you have two possible operations on them:
increase(X) − counter X is increased by 1,
max counter − all counters are set to the maximum value of any counter.
A non-empty array A of M integers is given. This array represents consecutive operations:
if A[K] = X, such that 1 ≤ X ≤ N, then operation K is increase(X),
if A[K] = N + 1 then operation K is max counter.
For example, given integer N = 5 and array A such that: A[0] = 3 A[1] = 4 A[2] = 4 A[3] = 6 A[4] = 1 A[5] = 4 A[6] = 4
the values of the counters after each consecutive operation will be: (0, 0, 1, 0, 0) (0, 0, 1, 1, 0) (0, 0, 1, 2, 0) (2, 2, 2, 2, 2) (3, 2, 2, 2, 2) (3, 2, 2, 3, 2) (3, 2, 2, 4, 2)
The goal is to calculate the value of every counter after all operations.
Assume that the following declarations are given:
struct Results {
int * C;
int L; // Length of the array
};
Write a function:
struct Results solution(int N, int A[], int M);
that, given an integer N and a non-empty array A consisting of M integers, returns a sequence of integers representing the values of the counters.
Result array should be returned as a structure Results.
For example, given: A[0] = 3 A[1] = 4 A[2] = 4 A[3] = 6 A[4] = 1 A[5] = 4 A[6] = 4
the function should return [3, 2, 2, 4, 2], as explained above.
Write an efficient algorithm for the following assumptions:
N and M are integers within the range [1..100,000];
each element of array A is an integer within the range [1..N + 1].