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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>`

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int
numReferences() const noexcept;
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== Description

DEPRECATED: Use `use_count` instead.


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