Merging two sorted linked lists

Question

This is one of the programming questions asked during written test from Microsoft. I am giving the question and the answer that I came up with. Thing is my answer although l

Answer 1

//I have used recursions .
//Sorry for such a long code.
//:) it works,hope it helps.
#include
#include
#include
struct node{
    int data;
    struct node *next ;
};
struct node *start1=NULL,*start2=NULL;
struct node*start=NULL;
struct node *create_ll1(struct node *start);
struct node *create_ll2(struct node *start);
void sorted_ll(struct node* node1,struct node* node2);

struct node *display(struct node *start);
void p(struct node*);
main(){
    start1=create_ll1(start1);
    start2=create_ll2(start2);
    //start1=display(start1);
    printf("\n");
    //start2=display(start2);
    sorted_ll(start1,start2);
    //start=display(start);


}
struct node *create_ll1(struct node *start1){
    struct node *ptr,*new_node;
    int num;
    printf("Enter -1 for ending \n");
    printf("Enter data for list 1: \n");
    scanf("%d",&num);
    while(num!=-1){
        new_node=(struct node *)malloc(sizeof(struct node));
        new_node->data=num;
        if(start1==NULL){
            new_node->next=NULL ;
            start1=new_node;
        }
        else{
            ptr=start1 ;
            while(ptr->next!=NULL)
            ptr=ptr->next;
            ptr->next=new_node;
            new_node->next=NULL ;
        }
        printf("Enter data: \n");
        scanf("%d",&num);
    }
    return start1;

}
struct node *create_ll2(struct node *start2){
    struct node *ptr,*new_node;
    int num;
    printf("Enter -1 for ending \n");
    printf("Enter data for list 2: \n");
    scanf("%d",&num);
    while(num!=-1){
        new_node=(struct node *)malloc(sizeof(struct node));
        new_node->data=num;
        if(start2==NULL){
            new_node->next=NULL ;
            start2=new_node;
        }
        else{
            ptr=start2 ;
            while(ptr->next!=NULL)
            ptr=ptr->next;
            ptr->next=new_node;
            new_node->next=NULL ;
        }
        printf("Enter data: \n");
        scanf("%d",&num);
    }
    return start2;

}

struct node *display(struct node *start){
    struct node *ptr;
    ptr=start;
    while(ptr->next!=NULL){
        printf("\t %d",ptr->data);
        ptr=ptr->next;
    }
        printf("\t %d",ptr->data);
        printf("\n");


    return start ;
}
void sorted_ll(struct node* node1,struct node* node2)
{
    if(!node1){
        p(node2);
        exit(0);
    }
    else if(!node2){
        p(node1);
        exit(0);
    }
    if(node1->datadata){
        printf("%d\t",node1->data);
        sorted_ll(node1->next,node2);


    }
    else{
        printf("%d\t",node2->data);
        sorted_ll(node1,node2->next);
    }
}
void p(struct node* pme){
    while(pme->next!=NULL){
        printf("%d \t",pme->data);
        pme=pme->next;
    }
    printf("%d",pme->data);

}