Return a "snapshot" of the number of shared pointers (including this one) that share ownership of the object managed by this shared pointer. Note that the behavior of this function is the same as use_count, and the result may be unreliable in multi‐threaded code for the same reasons.

Synopsis

Declared in <bslstl_sharedptr.h>

int
numReferences() const noexcept;

Description

DEPRECATED: Use use_count instead.

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