O(n log n) time 的要求,可以参与merge sort
寻找中间节点的时候,我们不是需要找到的中间节点的前一个节点,而不是中间节点本身
因此初始化fast的时候提前走一步:
slow = head;
fast = head->next;
之后对slow->next做排序, 然后把前半部末尾设置为NULL,然后进行归并排序。
/**
* Definition for singly-linked list.
* struct ListNode {
* int val;
* struct ListNode *next;
* };
*/
struct ListNode* mergeTwoLists(struct ListNode* l1, struct ListNode* l2) {
struct ListNode *dummyhead = malloc(sizeof(struct ListNode));
dummyhead->next = NULL;
struct ListNode *lastnode = dummyhead;
while(1){
if(l1&&l2){
if(l1->val < l2->val){
lastnode->next = l1;
l1 = l1->next;
lastnode = lastnode->next;
}else{
lastnode->next = l2;
l2 = l2->next;
lastnode = lastnode->next;
}
}else if(l1){
lastnode->next = l1;
break;
}else if(l2){
lastnode->next = l2;
break;
}else
break;
}
struct ListNode * tmp = dummyhead->next;
free(dummyhead);
return tmp;
}
//Sort a linked list in O(n log n) time using constant space complexity.
struct ListNode* sortList(struct ListNode* head) {
if(head == NULL || head->next == NULL)
return head;
struct ListNode *slow, *fast;
struct ListNode *l1, *l2;
l1 = l2 = NULL;
slow = head;
fast = head->next;
while(fast){
fast = fast->next;
if(fast){
fast = fast->next;
slow = slow->next;
}
}
//mid is slow
if(slow->next)
l2 = sortList(slow->next);
slow->next = NULL;
l1 = sortList(head);
return mergeTwoLists(l1, l2);
}