[RFA] nuke CONST_PTR

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:58:42AM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote:
>>was added in '98 so ever since then GDB hasn't been able to build with
>>the MSC compiler CONST_PTR was working around.  As Michael pointed out,
>>we've had 4 releases since then.
>
>OK, then this change seems safe.  Maybe we can also start yanking out
>other #if MSC code...

IIRC, we've already decided to do this.  I think I've already yanked
some stuff.

I think the last time this was mentioned there was some consternation
from people who wanted a non-cygwin version of gdb for Windows but
no one was willing to actually support the code.

So, since it doesn't actually work, and I'm the maintainer, I think
it makes sense to remove the MSC code.  If someone wants to add support
later, then they should probably start from a "clean slate".

cgf