6.3.11 Language-visible functions

The coNCePTuaL language contains a number of built-in functions that perform various operations on floating-point numbers (used when writing to a log file or the standard output device) and integers (used at all other times) and that determine the IDs of neighboring tasks on a variety of topologies. Each function occurs in two forms: ncptl_func_function, which maps ncptl_ints to ncptl_int s, and ncptl_dfunc_function, which maps doubles to doubles. See Built-in functions, for additional details about each function’s semantics.

Although some of the functions described in this section are fairly simple, including them in the run-time library ensures that each function returns the same value across different backends and across different platforms.