Implementing quicksort algorithm

In addition to Deestan's answer, you also have this wrong:

for (int j = low; j < high-1; j++)

It should be:

for (int j = low; j < high; j++)

You did not properly implement the base case termination, which causes quicksort to never stop recursing into itself with sublists of length 0.

Change this:

if (low < high)
    pivot_loc = partition(input, low, high);
quicksort(input, low, pivot_loc - 1);
quicksort(input, pivot_loc + 1, high);

to this:

if (low < high) {
    pivot_loc = partition(input, low, high);
    quicksort(input, low, pivot_loc - 1);
    quicksort(input, pivot_loc + 1, high);
}