I think the Sander's patches have problems with backward compatibility. They do not seem to tag functions starting on a new line without the visibility scope declaration, like
function ordinary_function()
because of the [ \t]+
I have prepared my own version of patches that should fix this. See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276902.
2009-07-07 14:30:42 UTC in Exuberant Ctags