how to output an int in binary?

Question

int x = 5;
cout<<(char)x;

the code above outputs an int x in raw binary, but only 1 byte. what I need it to do is output the x as 4-bytes in

Answer 1

A couple of hints.

First, to be between 0 and 2^32 - 1 you'll need an unsigned four-byte int.

Second, the four bytes starting at the address of x (&x) already have the bytes you want.

Does that help?