[Boost-users] revisiting casting a boost::shared_ptr to void*

I'm resurrecting this topic: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/boost-list/shared_ptr$20void*/boo... because there is an unaddressed issue in it that I'm about to run into: "... beware the pointee may be deleted if the last copy of the shared pointer goes out of scope, as the raw pointer won't have incremented the reference count." I cannot be the first person to run into this--a common issue when crossing an API boundary. Has anyone come up with a good, safe solution wherein the reference count gets properly incremented? -- Chris Cleeland