Re: RE_TRANSLATE_P

[Richard Stallman]

    It seems like that change was made in several places, so perhaps
    we should have a ZEROP macro to test such cases in a portable
    manner.  

That would be a natural extension if it had no problems.
But as you pointed out, it has a problem:

    But the second form evals 'obj' twice, so we need a BIG FAT WARNING
    when using ZEROP, or find some other portable way to implement it.

So let's not replace an easy change with a hard one.  The specific
change I suggested has no problem, because RE_TRANSLATE_P is used only
with variables as arguments.