AMDG Hicham Mouline wrote:

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?

You have to use enable_shared_from_this http://www.boost.org/libs/smart_ptr/enable_shared_from_this.html In Christ, Steven Watanabe