What is the purpose of inheriting from enable_shared_from_this? [duplicate] - c++11

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What is the usefulness of `enable_shared_from_this`?
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What is the point for a class T to inherit from std::enable_shared_from_this<T> ? I can't seem to figure out why you wouldn't just create a std::shared_ptr<this> ?

Cppreference has a good example on why.
If you want to return a std::shared_ptr of this while *this is already owned by a std::shared_ptr and you don't return shared_from_this() but return a new std::shared_ptr<T>(this) instead then you will end up with 2 shared pointers that don't know they're both owning the same object and thus the use_count() will be wrong which will cause a double delete, which is undefined behavior.

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Get list of a class' methods
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