Terminating a C Program

["Pantzopoulos, Mike" <mikepantzopoulos@xxxxxxxx>]

Title: Terminating a C Program

I have a few problems in understanding the program model that is used for C programs, and how the C program acts in the stack when called from RPG.

In essence I want the C program to behave like an RPG program - ie it stays resident until *INLR is set on. Is there a way of doing this in C? Alternatively, how do I control the invocation and termination of a C program ? My current C program is terminating each time it returns, and I need it and it's lower level RPG invocations to stay resident until I'm ready to end them..

I'm also  bit confused as to which program model I have when I compile my C program

In my travels through Jennifer Hamilton's book, I saw a reference to STREPMENV and ENDEPMENV and I thought this might be the answer to the above problems.

Unfortunately, it turns out I have ILE C program created using the CRTBNDC. When I look at the DSPPGM output, I find that this is an ILE program. When I use CRTCMOD/CRTPGM, of course it's an ILE program. I shouldn't have to create an EPM program should I?

I've have looked at the C Programmers Guide, but to no avail.
Any help out there?

Thank You

Mike Pantzopoulos