Merge Sort is looping continuously and going into segmentation fault?

I didn't try the code by myself, but using such a big array as a local variable doesn't sound like a very good idea. You also don't do any boundary checks when reading into the file. This may corrupt your stack and lead to unpredictable results.

In mergesort, you have written int mid=0. Instead do this.

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