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Steps to reproduce

In a Windows 11 VM hosted in Parallels on a MacBook, with Parallels' default mapped apps and folders, the "dead code" assertion here is actually being hit, and prevents pwsh from starting up:

Expected behavior

`pwsh` to start-up as normal

Actual behavior

The assertion is hit and the process exits (since it's a debug build)

Error details

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Environment data

built from master

Visuals

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