Specific Names of Intrinsic Functions

 

Specific names should be used instead of the generic name of an intrinsic function only if the name is to be the actual argument of a procedure call; the name then must also be declared in an INTRINSIC statement. The following intrinsic functions cannot be used in this way, and their specific names are therefore completely obsolete.

Obsolete specific name Preferred generic form

IFIX, IDINT INT

FLOAT, SNGL REAL

MAX0, AMAX1, DMAX1 MAX

AMAX0, MAX1 MAX *

MIN0, AMIN1, DMIN1 MIN

AMIN0, MIN1 MIN *

* the functions AMAX0, MAX1, AMIN0, and MIN1 which have a data type different from that of their arguments can only be replaced by appropriate type conversion functions in addition to MAX or MIN.