so yk, In the XC8 compiler, you can't directly use the @ syntax like you can do in CC5X to assign a variable to a specific memory address.

here's an example,

#include <xc.h>

char my_array[10]; unsigned int *cont_up;

void main() { cont_up = (unsigned int *)&my_array[5];

*cont_up = 0xABCD; 


while (1);

}