Max and min element of an array using functions and pointers

I have a task to make two functions: max_el function that needs to return the pointer to the largest element in the array; and min_el function that needs to return the pointer to the smallest element in the array. I have this so far, and for some examples it works, for some it crashes and for some the output isn’t right. I really don’t know where I messed up.

int *max_el(int *p1, int *p2){
int max,i;
for(i=p1; i<p2; i++){
    if(*p1>*p2){
        max=*p1;
    }
    p2++;
}
return p1;
}
int *min_el(int *p1, int *p2){
int min,i;
for(i=p1; i<p2; i++){
    if(*p1<*p2){
        min=*p1;
    }
    p2++;
}
return p1;
}

>Solution :

Your code is wrong for several reasons. Missing initialization, wrong assignments, wrong compares, etc. For instance you would want i and max to be pointers instead of integers.

Take a look at this:

int *max_el(int *p1, int *p2)
{
    int *max = p1; // Set the max pointer to point to first element
    int *i;

    for(i = p1 + 1; i < p2; i++)
    {
        if(*i > *max)   // Compare current element with max element
        {
            max= i;
        }
    }
    return max;    
}