explain this statement

[vw4x4]

cout<<32;
in this statement,is 32 being stored first and after this it is being printed on the screen?.am asking this question because,if we use a statement sizeof(32) we get 32= 2 bytes.

[AbstractionAnon]

cout is an ostream which has an << operator for formating integers, so 32 is passed as an argument to the operator << function in the same way as you pass an integer to any other function, so 32 is "stored" on the stack as part of the function call.

[vw4x4]

so, thats why sizeof(32) =2 bytes?

[pogrady]

32 is a short integer, which is 2 bytes in length.

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/variables/

[vlad from moscow]

32 - is an integral constant of type int (not short int as it was said above) . So it means that 2 is sizeof( int ) on your system

[paulsaijoy]

because 32 is a integer in a C++ computer language integer requires two bytes