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diff --git a/src/corelib/tools/qstring.cpp b/src/corelib/tools/qstring.cpp
index f8f4bdc97f..ee45cfdc49 100644
--- a/src/corelib/tools/qstring.cpp
+++ b/src/corelib/tools/qstring.cpp
@@ -3580,6 +3580,28 @@ static inline __m128i mergeQuestionMarks(__m128i chunk)
{
const __m128i questionMark = _mm_set1_epi16('?');
+# ifdef __SSE4_2__
+ // compare the unsigned shorts for the range 0x0100-0xFFFF
+ // note on the use of _mm_cmpestrm:
+ // The MSDN documentation online (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb514080.aspx)
+ // says for range search the following:
+ // For each character c in a, determine whether b0 <= c <= b1 or b2 <= c <= b3
+ //
+ // However, all examples on the Internet, including from Intel
+ // (see http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/xml-parsing-accelerator-with-intel-streaming-simd-extensions-4-intel-sse4/)
+ // put the range to be searched first
+ //
+ // Disassembly and instruction-level debugging with GCC and ICC show
+ // that they are doing the right thing. Inverting the arguments in the
+ // instruction does cause a bunch of test failures.
+
+ const int mode = _SIDD_UWORD_OPS | _SIDD_CMP_RANGES | _SIDD_UNIT_MASK;
+ const __m128i rangeMatch = _mm_cvtsi32_si128(0xffff0100);
+ const __m128i offLimitMask = _mm_cmpestrm(rangeMatch, 2, chunk, 8, mode);
+
+ // replace the non-Latin 1 characters in the chunk with question marks
+ chunk = _mm_blendv_epi8(chunk, questionMark, offLimitMask);
+# else
// SSE has no compare instruction for unsigned comparison.
// The variables must be shiffted + 0x8000 to be compared
const __m128i signedBitOffset = _mm_set1_epi16(0x8000);
@@ -3603,6 +3625,7 @@ static inline __m128i mergeQuestionMarks(__m128i chunk)
// merge offLimitQuestionMark and correctBytes to have the result
chunk = _mm_or_si128(correctBytes, offLimitQuestionMark);
# endif
+# endif
return chunk;
}
#endif