So. One nasty SBCL bootstrap bug gone. Or at least worked-around; a proper solution will abstract the horribleness into a cross-compiler-aware MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS.

wnewman: The bad news is that there's at least one more such bug, of similar complexity and larger impact. It's slightly odd that the ANSI J13 committee, in its wisdom, decided to make the return value from BYTE be of implementation-dependent nature. But, the world being what it is, we have to deal with it, and currently we're not.