Finished transitioning to using gc_refs to track gc objects' states.

Finished transitioning to using gc_refs to track gc objects' states.
This was mostly a matter of adding comments and light code rearrangement.
Upon untracking, gc_next is still set to NULL.  It's a cheap way to
provoke memory faults if calling code is insane.  It's also used in some
way by the trashcan mechanism.