I am running Debian unstable for 386. Python 2.4 is from the official package archive, and seems to be compiled with GCC 4.0.2.
$ dpkg -l python2.4 ii python2.4 2.4.1-4 ... $ python2.4 Python 2.4.1+ (#2, Sep 4 2005, 21:58:51) [GCC 4.0.2 20050821 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.1-6)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> $ gcc-4.0 --version gcc-4.0 (GCC) 4.0.2 20050725 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.1-3) Klem fra Nils -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list