Sorry, let me be more specific:

1) there's a problem with the configure-time code that detects whether
the compiler supports Neon intrinsics. Somehow, MeeGo managed to get a
false positive here and configure decides that the compiler doesn't
support Neon. This is not fixed.

2) there was a problem with the configure-time code that turned on the
Neon intrinsics support. It did not support run-time detection: instead,
if it figured that the compiler supported Neon intrinsics, it turned
Neon everywhere by adding the "-mfpu=neon" option. At the same time, the
code with Neon intrinsics was statically enabled, bypassing the runtime
detection. This has been fixed.

3) qstring.cpp contains the only code in Qt that uses Neon intrinsics but does 
not check at runtime. It is enabled at compile-time if the compiler was 
launched with -mfpu=neon. There are two reasons for this:
 a) the complexity involved in supporting run-time detection for code such as 
qstring.cpp, as it requires creating a separate .cpp file, compiling it with 
different compiler options, etc.
 b) there's an associated runtime overhead with the checking of the variable 
and making the function call to the Neon-enabled code (which cannot be inlined, 
as it is in a separate .cpp)
So we concluded that if you want to build Qt without Neon, you may as well live 
without the Neon optimisations for strings.

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  QT on armel is built with NEON by default

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