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Built-In Types

The following data types are an integral part of the VOS and are supported directly by the Virtual Execution System (VES). They have special encoding in the persisted metadata:

Name in IL assembler (VOS) CLS Type? Name in class library Description
bool Yes System.Boolean True/false value
char Yes System.Char Unicode 16-bit char.
class System.Object Yes System.Object Object or boxed value type
class System.String Yes System.String Unicode string
float32 Yes System.Single IEEE 32-bit float
float64 Yes System.Double IEEE 64-bit float
int8 No System.SByte Signed 8-bit integer
int16 Yes System.Int16 Signed 16-bit integer
int32 Yes System.Int32 Signed 32-bit integer
int64 Yes System.Int64 Signed 64-bit integer
native int No   Signed integer, native size
native unsigned int No   Unsigned integer, native size
typedref No System.TypedReference Pointer plus runtime type
unsigned int8 Yes System.Byte Unsigned 8-bit integer
unsigned int16 No System.UInt16 Unsigned 16-bit integer
unsigned int32 No System.UInt32 Unsigned 32-bit integer
unsigned int64 No System.UInt64 Unsigned 64-bit integer