Most specific intrinsic functions can be passed as actual arguments. However, certain intrinsic functions cannot be passed as actual arguments and are listed in the table below.
| AIMAX0 | EOF | IQINT | LOC |
| AIMIN0 | FLOAT | IZEXT | MALLOC |
| AJMAX0 | FLOATI | JFIX | MAX0 |
| AJMIN0 | FLOATJ | JIDINT | MAX1 |
| AKMAX0 | FLOATK | JIFIX | MIN0 |
| AKMIN0 | HFIX | JINT | MIN1 |
| AMAX0 | IADDR | JIQINT | MULT_HIGH |
| AMAX1 | IARGC | JMAX0 | MULT_HIGH_SIGNED |
| AMIN0 | ICHAR | JMAX1 | NARGS |
| AMIN1 | IDINT | JMIN0 | QCMPLX |
| BADDRESS | IFIX | JMIN1 | QEXT |
| CHAR | IIDINT | JZEXT | QEXTD |
| CMPLX | IIFIX | KIDINT | QMAX1 |
| COMMAND_ARGUMENT_COUNT | IINT | KIFIX | QMIN1 |
| DBLE | IIQINT | KINT | QREAL |
| DBLEQ | IJINT | KIQINT | RAN |
| DCMPLX | IMAX0 | KIQNNT | REAL |
| DFLOTI | IMAX1 | KMAX0 | SECNDS |
| DFLOTJ | IMIN0 | KMAX1 | SHIFTL |
| DFLOTK | IMIN1 | KMIN0 | SHIFTR |
| DMAX1 | INT | KMIN1 | SNGL |
| DMIN1 | INT1 | KZEXT | SNGLQ |
| DPROD | INT2 | LGE | ZEXT |
| DREAL | INT4 | LGT | |
| DSHIFTL | INT8 | LGE |