Issue while I try to assign a QSharedPointer to a variable

[beidaochuan]

Hello,
I make some as follows.

  QSharedPointer<User> pointer(new User());
  // UserSettings is a Class
  const UserSettings &userSettingsRef = pointer; 

Complie error should happen, but it not.
Could somebody tell me why?

[A Former User]

Hi! This gives me the following compile error:

invalid initialization of reference of type 'const UserSettings&' from expression of type 'QSharedPointer<User>'
     const UserSettings &userSettingsRef = pointer;
                                           ^

What's your platform / compiler?