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v0.1.0-alpha

OxideUtils v0.1.0-alpha

First public alpha of OxideUtils, a memory-safe Rust reimplementation
of the classic GNU binutils userland tool surface (Zainium Dynamics).
Behavioural reference is binutils 2.46.1 for QA comparison only — no
GNU code is linked and this is not a GNU project.

Included in this build:
  - 14-crate workspace: objdump, nm, readelf, size, strings, ar, strip,
    objcopy, addr2line, cxxfilt, elfedit, and oxideutils-core (dual
    std/no_std, usable from a no_std kernel context).
  - A real, scope-limited oxide-as / oxide-ld x86_64 assembler and
    ELF64 linker, verified end-to-end against real glibc: assembled,
    linked (static and dynamic via PLT/GOT), and executed real
    binaries, including .init_array/.fini_array symbol synthesis,
    initial-exec TLS, SSE/SSE2 float encoding, and a macro/conditional
    assembly preprocessor.
  - x86/x86_64 disassembly via iced-x86; early AArch64 decode via
    bad64, with an explicit hex-fallback rather than a silent guess
    when real decode isn't available.
  - oxide-ar create/list/delete round-trip with a symbol index.
  - GitLab CI: build, test, clippy/fmt gate, fuzz scaffold, benchmarks.

Why "alpha": this is a working foundation, not a GNU drop-in yet.
Known gaps (full detail in CHANGELOG.md and
docs/AUDIT-REPORT-BINUTILS-2.46.1.md):
  - strip/objcopy: ELF32 strip can silently no-op; ELF64 strip lacks a
    full validation pass. Do not use as a default system strip/objcopy.
  - Disassembly: only x86_64 has full real-decode confidence.
  - readelf: versym, compressed-section detail, SFrame, and GOT depth
    are partial.
  - PE / Mach-O / Wasm support is stub/summary-level only.
  - oxide-as/oxide-ld: x86_64-only, no lazy PLT, no GOT-relative data
    imports, no full TLS/IFUNC matrix, no AVX/x87.
  - Golden/integration test coverage vs a real binutils 2.46.1 tree is
    still thin.

Build health at this tag: cargo fmt --check clean, cargo clippy
--workspace --all-targets 0 warnings, cargo test --workspace all
passing.

See CHANGELOG.md and ROADMAP.md for the full picture and the path to
a non-alpha v0.1.0.