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Steps to reproduce

There is something about the exception raised by Assembly.GetTypes() that is causing Get-Error to get stuck in some loop and use up all system resources. In dotnet 8 loading the System.Data.SqlClient causes an error when attempting to get the types of that assembly. While this is a known problem attempting to use Get-Error to produce more information causes the shell to hang and start to consume all the system resources.

I've narrowed it down to the formatting of this particular error record in the formatting code

Expected behavior

Add-Type -Assembly System.Data.SqlClient

# This will raise an exception
[System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCredential].Assembly.GetTypes()

# Calling Get-Error after "hangs"
Get-Error

Actual behavior

Shows the error without hanging

Error details

Nothing, it hangs

Environment data

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      7.4.1
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.4.1
OS                             Arch Linux
Platform                       Unix
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

Visuals

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