From bab86dc8d745263299949590db82952942c5c79d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anthony Geay <anthony.geay@edf.fr>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 07:47:00 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] a useful method

---
 src/MEDCoupling/MCAuto.hxx | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/src/MEDCoupling/MCAuto.hxx b/src/MEDCoupling/MCAuto.hxx
index 99de255ca..913024e84 100644
--- a/src/MEDCoupling/MCAuto.hxx
+++ b/src/MEDCoupling/MCAuto.hxx
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ namespace MEDCoupling
     bool operator==(const T *other) const { return _ptr==other; }
     MCAuto &operator=(const MCAuto& other) { if(_ptr!=other._ptr) { destroyPtr(); referPtr(other._ptr); } return *this; }
     MCAuto &operator=(T *ptr) { if(_ptr!=ptr) { destroyPtr(); _ptr=ptr; } return *this; }
+    void takeRef(T *ptr) { if(_ptr!=ptr) { destroyPtr(); _ptr=ptr; if(_ptr) _ptr->incrRef(); } }
     T *operator->() { return _ptr ; }
     const T *operator->() const { return _ptr; }
     T& operator*() { return *_ptr; }
-- 
2.39.2