The compiler muddies the water considerably, in terms of the association between what the user program states and the resulting machine code. A monitor would be of little help there.

I do wonder, though, how much code space is used up by the overhead resulting from the compiler's processing of the HLL. The "little" chips have "little" code space. The jury's still out on whether that would work as well as ASM. Further, I doubt one can do as good a job being ignorant of ASM when writing HLL. You have on occasion indicated that there are some things one can't handle exclusively in HLL.

Nevertheless, I freely admit that the use of a monitor when debugging HLL would be of very limited effectiveness.

BTW, I've never said my extensive selection of macros is "wonderful". You, in fact, noted that I had effectively created the equivalent of a compiler with my assortment of macros, which could be how one sees it. It's not very different from a library of functions.

RE