/*
 * -- SuperLU MT routine (version 1.0) --
 * Univ. of California Berkeley, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center,
 * and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
 * August 15, 1997
 *
 * This routine should NOT be optimized.
 */
int await(volatile int *status)
{
    register int i, j, k, randnum;

    /* randnum = ( random() & 0xff ); */
    randnum = 0;
    while ( *status ) ;
#if 0
    {
	/* Length better be adaptive to the number of processors */
	k = randnum;
	for (i = 0; i < randnum; ++i) {
	    j += k;
	    k = -k;
	}
    }
#endif
    return 0;
}