There's nothing wrong with declaring a constant by saying "temp equ 0x05".
You can then use that definition, for example,  "movlw    temp".
You can also *assume* it to be an ordinal bit value definition, if you
were to write "btfsc REGx, temp".
Just because you use "equ" doesn't mean you're "assigning addresses" to
anything.   I assume you had some sort of "misbehavior" that led you to
conclude "temp equ 0x05" was the "wrong" thing to do... what happened?
Jim

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From: "Hopkins" <rdhopkins@IHUG.CO.NZ>
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Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: [PIC:] MPASM EQU command


> Hi all,
>
> I was trying to declare a constant with
>
> temp equ 0x5
>
> but instead of temp = 5 it is assigned the address of 5.
>
> Now how do you declare a label/variable with a constant value?
>
> :-(
>
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