From 797337b29bccb6732e5506180dbef9e10e89bf48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Syn Wee Quek <swquek@svn.icu-project.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 01:17:21 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] ICU-1923 updated compareUnsigned for optimization

X-SVN-Rev: 9303
---
 icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/impl/Utility.java | 17 +++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/impl/Utility.java b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/impl/Utility.java
index 3acd8a9a268..7030516fdd6 100755
--- a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/impl/Utility.java
+++ b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/impl/Utility.java
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
  *******************************************************************************
  *
  * $Source: /xsrl/Nsvn/icu/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/impl/Utility.java,v $
- * $Date: 2002/07/17 23:48:06 $
- * $Revision: 1.26 $
+ * $Date: 2002/07/24 01:17:21 $
+ * $Revision: 1.27 $
  *
  *****************************************************************************************
  */
@@ -1540,10 +1540,15 @@ public final class Utility {
         if (source == target) {
             return 0;
         }
-        if ((long)(source & 0xFFFFFFFFL) >
-            (long)(target & 0xFFFFFFFFL)) {
-            return 1;
+        if (source >= 0) {
+            if (source < target || target < 0) {
+                return -1;
+            } 
+            else if (source < target && target < 0) {
+                // source < 0, so
+                return -1;
+            }
         }
-        return -1;
+        return 1;
     }
 }