I could not find much about it. Try searching the website of National and ON Semi.
Here is a part from National that uses constant-on-time **broken link removed**
Essentially, constant on-time does a good job when the input voltage range is large. In a buck the duty-cycle varies with the ratio of the output voltage to the input voltage. For high ratios, the duty-cycle becomes very small and the swithc has barely if any time to turn on. With constant-on-time you force it to be on a reasonable amount of time, to ensure complete turn-on of the switch. Then you adjust the frequency to keep the loop in regulation.
I hope this helps.