bug#4264: 23.1.50; byte-compile-lapcode broken

if lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el, function
(defun byte-compile-lapcode (lap)

has its brackets all wrong, leading to bytes falling out of scope
I think it should read
    (let (bytes)
      (while patchlist
	(setq bytes (car patchlist))
	(cond ((atom (car bytes)))	; Tag
	      (t			; Absolute jump
	       (setq pc (car (cdr (car bytes))))	; Pick PC from tag
	       (setcar (cdr bytes) (logand pc 255))
	       (setcar bytes (lsh pc -8))
               ;; FIXME: Replace this by some workaround.
               (if (> (car bytes) 255) (error "Bytecode overflow")))))
      (setq patchlist (cdr patchlist))
      (apply 'unibyte-string (nreverse bytes)))))

but I am having trouble checking


In GNU Emacs 23.1.50.54 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.14.4)
 of 2009-08-26 on harvey
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10502000
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==John ffitch