[Boost-users] How can I get a reference from a boost smart pointer?

Hi, I have a pointer to a class: A* aPt; and I deference it to pass that as a reference void aFunction(A& aRef); and I call aFunction(*aPt); but if I switch to use boost smart pointer how can I de-reference it and call aFunction()? shared_ptr<A> aPt; I tried: aFunction(aPt); // does not compile aFunction(aPt->get()); // does not compile. Thank you for any help.