Quote Originally Posted by Bruce View Post
Not on ALL 18F parts they're not, so be careful.
Yes, many of the newer 3.3V J series (particularly those with USB and/or Ethernet) do have SFR's located in other than the Access Bank. IIRC, Charles uses a PIC18F8722 (or 8723) and in that case, all the SFR's are located in the Access Bank.

In any event, you have highlighted one of the main reasons PIC's (particularly the PIC16/18) are not my current choice of MCU - too many gotchas, Ram Banks, Code Pages, etc., although the PIC24/dsPIC are somewhat better in this respect. There is something to be said in having 4GB of linear addressing space for both code and data.