Create a TSharedPtr to a member variable safely

Development Programming & Scripting
1

I have a struct as a class member variable, and in a method I need to pass a TSharedPtr to this member variable to a routine. How can I do this without the TSharedPtr, when it goes out of scope, attempting to destroy the member?
In the example below, when ExMethod completes, it will free ExStructVar.

 class ExClass {
  public:
    void ExMethod() {
      TSharedPtr<ExStruct> ExStructVarPtr = MakeShareable(&this->ExStructVar);
      SomeRoutine(ExStructVarPtr);
    }
    ExStruct ExStructVar;
  };

Can I bump the ref count up somehow?

P.S. This example is contrived. In the real world, I can’t change the declaration of ExStructVar, or the signature of SomeRoutine.

2

Hello,
similar problem is here
https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/c-gameplay-programming/1414696-tsharedptr-destroyes-previous-rawpointer
Solution is to use MakeShareable function with a custom deleter passed as the second parameter which does nothing.

However, I think that if such a problem appears in the code it shows some bigger problem in the design.