Discourage using GCC 4.2 for Python.

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@@ -276,6 +276,14 @@ on these platforms without the special directions mentioned here,
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+GCC 4.2: There is a known incompatibility between Python and GCC,
+         where GCC 4.2 takes an interpretation of C different from
+        prior GCC releases, in an area where C has undefined behaviour
+        (namely, integer arithmetic involving -sys.maxint-1).
+        As a consequence, compiling Python with GCC 4.2 is not
+        recommend. It is likely that this problem will be resolved
+        in future Python releases.
+
 Unix platforms: If your vendor still ships (and you still use) Berkeley DB
         1.85 you will need to edit Modules/Setup to build the bsddb185
         module and add a line to sitecustomize.py which makes it the