[C++-sig] how to handle bare references with a shared_ptr HeldType

[Hans Meine]

On Thursday 22 September 2005 16:37, Gregory Price wrote:
> Is there a way to tell Boost.Python not to make a shared_ptr
> for this return value -- to override the HeldType just for this
> function's return value?  Alternatively, to tell Boost.Python
> always to leave bare A references as they are?
>
> Or perhaps there's a simpler solution that I'm missing.

Ah.  I knew I was overlooking something.
Is changing the HeldType an option for you?

OTOH, if you use return_internal_reference, BP should know that creating a 
shared_ptr with a refcount of 1 is evil..  is that really what it does?

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