[Boost-users] shared_ptr usage

Hello, I have a class that stores a private member a shared_ptr<T> that points to a dynamically allocated instance of T. A getter member function returns T&. I now realise that in a snippet, I would like to store a new shared_ptr<T> to that returned object. T& t = myinstance.getT(); I would like to store t in a shared_ptr, ie increment the count of shared pointers Do I do: shared_ptr<T> desiredPointer( &t ); will this increment the count of shared pointers to t? Regards,