PR Summary

Fixes#23950.

PR Context

When a native process writes a line to stderr, PowerShell wraps it in anErrorRecord. Users often want to merge the stdout and stderr streams, at which point they need to convert theErrorRecord from stderr back to a string. However, before this PR, anErrorRecord with an empty exception message string stringifies to the name of the exception (System.Management.Automation.RemoteException for this specific scenario), which requires the user to use various workarounds (e.g. grabbing.Exception.Message manually) to get the original string.

Reproduction:

$(try {throw""}catch {$_})|% {"$_"}# System.Management.Automation.RuntimeException

This PR makes.ToString() behave consistently even for empty exception messages, so just running.ToString() on items from stderr should be enough to get back the original strings. While this is technically a breaking change, I'm pretty sure it falls into bucket 3 (unlikely gray area).

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