You want QSharedPointer . You'll find a comparison of all the pointer classes offered by Qt in the detailed description of QSharedPointer .
If you used boost::shared_ptr, continue using it. Prefer boost::shared_ptr to any Qt 'extensions' because boost::shared_ptr is accepted into the C++0x standard (std::shared_ptr).
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