Given two sorted linked lists, how do we merge them without using any extra space. That means we have to re-arrange the links to form a single sorted linked list.
For example let us consider the following two sorted lists as input.
1 -> 3 -> 5 -> 7
2 -> 4 -> 6 -> 8
The output should be
1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 -> 5 -> 6 -> 7 -> 8
The algorithm is simple. We take the smaller node between the two lists in each iteration, and add it to the result list. We do this until we process any of the list to completion. If there is any remaining portion of the other list, we join it with the result list.
Here is the C++ code do this.