Value Types

• sizes of standard types (int, long, ...) are architecture dependent
• additional Vala types int8, int16, int32, int64 (signed), uint8, uint16, uint32, uint64 (unsigned) with architecture independent guaranteed sizes
• no byte, sbyte (use uint8, int8 instead)
• no decimal
• C# char is UCS-2, not Vala's char, but similar to Vala's UCS-4 unichar

Numeric Suffixes

Both Vala and C# support numeric suffixes and are case-insensitive. The following suffixes are supported in Vala:

Integer Suffixes

Suffix	Type
	int
u	uint
l	long
ll	int64
ul	ulong
ull	uint64

Floating-point Suffixes

Suffix	Type
	double
f	float
d	double

Differences between Vala and C#:

• Vala does not support the m suffix, which represents the decimal type
• Vala does not support rearranging the order of the suffix ul to be lu
• Vala does not infer the type of l to be either long or ulong
• Vala does not infer the type of u to be either uint or ulong
• Vala does not infer the type of suffixless numbers.
• C# does not have the ull or ll suffixes.