No longer seeing InvalidOperationExceptions with certain Assembly.ReflectionOnlyLoad usage

[pjcollins]

Android application type

Classic Xamarin.Android (MonoAndroid12.0, etc.)

Affected platform version

VS 17.3

Description

Commit e1af958 seems to have somehow affected Assembly.ReflectionOnlyLoad related API usage. We're seeing four new BCL test failures that are related:
https://devdiv.visualstudio.com/DevDiv/_build/results?buildId=6270744&view=ms.vss-test-web.build-test-results-tab

For some reason, this API usage is no longer throwing -- we don't seem hit some of these expected code paths:

https://github.com/mono/mono/blob/5d2e3bc3b3c8184d35b2f7801e88d96470d367c4/mcs/class/corlib/System.Reflection/Assembly.cs#L556
https://github.com/mono/mono/blob/5d2e3bc3b3c8184d35b2f7801e88d96470d367c4/mono/metadata/icall.c#L2089

Steps to Reproduce

Use some Assembly.ReflectionOnlyLoad related reflection, example:

• https://github.com/mono/mono/blob/0e5e464cff103f104bee6beb22461ea7332fe102/mcs/class/corlib/Test/System.Reflection/AssemblyTest.cs#L735
• https://github.com/mono/mono/blob/5d2e3bc3b3c8184d35b2f7801e88d96470d367c4/mcs/class/corlib/Test/System.Reflection/FieldInfoTest.cs#L427

These no longer throw an InvalidOperationExceptions as expected.

Did you find any workaround?

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Relevant log output

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