As far as I can tell, python crashes early in its initialization (python__start being the last named call). It's really odd cause I did manage to get it to the python prompt when stepping via gdb. Without gdb it appears to call 3 functions recursively until it runs out of stack and crashes (tried 64MB stack afair).
Btw, is there a gcc version you'd recommend? We've got anything from 2.95.3 to 12 :)