C# Int32: m_value

Question

After reading a bit about the Int32 struct in C#, I realized that int and Int32 are synonymous. In the source code of Int32 struct, th

Answer 1

It's rather hard to follow what's going on when reading the source of the core framework.

"how the value gets stored in m_value when we give int i=7;"

Firstly, when the C# compiler sees int, it just pretends you said System.Int32 instead (*). Similarly when it sees 7, it says "aha! That's an integer literal. I'll store it in a System.Int32". So then it creates the variable i (of the right type), and initializes it with the value it created.

(*) That means that the source http://referencesource.microsoft.com/#mscorlib/system/int32.cs,225942ed7b7a3252 has:

public struct Int32 : *various bases*
{
    internal Int32 m_value;

... which is ever so slightly confusing (and wouldn't normally be legal).