> I was trying to declare a constant with
>
> temp equ 0x5

That's right.

> but instead of temp = 5 it is assigned the address of 5.

No, TEMP = 5.  Of course you can use TEMP in place of an address constant,
like:

     movf   temp, w        ;fetch what's in location 5


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