This patch fills in two holes in pdd04 (internal data types).  The information
came from include/parrot/pobj.h.

Christoph Otto
--- parrot/docs/pdds/pdd04_datatypes.pod        2005-04-19 10:12:52.667126432 
-0700
+++ parrot-local/docs/pdds/pdd04_datatypes.pod  2005-04-24 21:42:47.460178912 
-0700
@@ -267,9 +267,10 @@
 C<_metadata> holds internal PMC metadata. The specification for this has not
 yet been finalized.
 
-XXX: what does C<_synchronize> do?
+C<_synchronize> is for access synchronization between shared PMCs.
 
-XXX:  ditto C<_next_for_GC>...
+C<_next_for_GC> determines the next PMC in the 'used' list during dead object 
+detection in the GC. 
 
 PMCs are not required to have a C<PMC_EXT> structure (i.e. C<pmc_ext> can
 be null).

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