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

LLNode *mergeSorted(LLNode *h1, LLNode *h2) 
{ 
  LLNode *h3=NULL;
  LLNode *h3l;
  if(h1==NULL && h2==NULL)
    return NULL; 
  if(h1==NULL) 
    return h2; 
  if(h2==NULL) 
    return h1; 
  if(h1->datadata) 
  {
    h3=h1;
    h1=h1->next; 
  }
  else 
  { 
    h3=h2; 
    h2=h2->next; 
  }
  LLNode *oh=h3;
  while(h1!=NULL && h2!=NULL) 
  {
    if(h1->datadata) 
    {
      h3->next=h1;
      h3=h3->next;
      h1=h1->next; 
    } 
    else 
    {
      h3->next=h2; 
      h3=h3->next; 
      h2=h2->next; 
    } 
  } 
  if(h1==NULL)
    h3->next=h2;
  if(h2==NULL)
    h3->next=h1;
  return oh;
}