I'm learning to program a PIC18 using assembly language and am curious
why there seems to be some redundancy with many instructions. Take the
MOVF instruction, for example:

MOVLB 0x2          ;select bank 2
MOVF   0x240, W  ;move the value at 0x240 to W

If my understanding is correct, then the "2" digit in the MOVF
instruction is ignored completely, making it redundant since the bank
is selected above. From what I've read, it seems that the assembler
automatically sets the access "a" bit based on the address when
translating to machine code, so what I'm wondering is why the
assembler doesn't automatically generate bank select instructions as
well?

Thanks!

Nathan

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