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Return a "snapshot" of the current number of shared pointers that share ownership of the object referred to by this weak pointer, or 0 if this weak pointer is in the empty state. Note that the behavior of this method is the same as that of `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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