Mike,
I noticed that the patch was generated before I had turned off the tabs in my editor. I have rebased the patch against 18443 and double checked it for any tab issues. passed full test harness on i686-pc-gnu-linux.
Many thanks for rebasing the patch! I've applied it as r18446, thanks :-) I've tested the patch on linux x86, could others please confirm that it works as expected on their platforms? Paul