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Google yielded no helpful results for this problem.  Some experimentation yielded a workaround; hopefully others encountering the same issue will find this post and save themselves some time!

On Visual Studio 2010 SP1, building a Qt project using Intel Compiler XE 12.1 (provided by Intel Composer XE 2011 Update 9) with full optimizations and /Qprof-gen (Phase 1: Instrument for Opimization) enabled fails with the following linker errors:

NewCustomPuzzleDialog.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "const QSpacerItem::`vftable'" (??_7QSpacerItem@@6B@)
NewRandPuzzleDialog.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "const QSpacerItem::`vftable'" (??_7QSpacerItem@@6B@)
NewCustomPuzzleDialog.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "const QLayoutItem::`vftable'" (??_7QLayoutItem@@6B@)
NewRandPuzzleDialog.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "const QLayoutItem::`vftable'" (??_7QLayoutItem@@6B@)

The workaround I found is to set /Ob0 (disable inline function expansion).  This is only necessary for the instrumentation/data collection phase - /Ob2 (inline all suitable functions) may be used when building with /Qprof-use (optimize with profile data).