Interview Question: Merge two sorted singly linked lists without creating new nodes

Question

This is a programming question asked during a written test for an interview. \"You have two singly linked lists that are already sorted, you have to merge them and return a

Answer 1

Node * merge_sort(Node *a, Node *b){
   Node *result = NULL;
   if(a ==  NULL)
      return b;
   else if(b == NULL)
      return a;

  /* For the first node, we would set the result to either a or b */
    if(a->data <= b->data){
       result = a;
    /* Result's next will point to smaller one in lists 
       starting at a->next  and b */
      result->next = merge_sort(a->next,b);
    }
    else {
      result = b;
     /*Result's next will point to smaller one in lists 
       starting at a and b->next */
       result->next = merge_sort(a,b->next);
    }
    return result;
 }

Please refer to my blog post for http://www.algorithmsandme.com/2013/10/linked-list-merge-two-sorted-linked.html