Hello World application crashes when export NODE_OPTIONS="--max_old_space_size=4096" is set

[Samulus]

Reproduction steps:

• echo "console.log('Hello World');" > hi.js
• export NODE_OPTIONS=--max_old_space_size=4096
• node hi.js // Prints Hello World as expected.
• npx pkg hi.js

It prints out:

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> Targets not specified. Assuming:
  node14-linux-x64, node14-macos-x64, node14-win-x64

I run ./hi-linux and nothing is printed, $? shows error code 4 was returned. If we do export NODE_OPTIONS="--max_old_space_size=4096 --trace-exit" and then run ./hi-linux we get the following stack trace:

(node:754642) WARNING: Exited the environment with code 4
    at exit (internal/process/per_thread.js:174:13)
    at _compile (pkg/prelude/bootstrap.js:1682:29)
    at Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1097:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:933:32)
    at Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:774:14)
    at runMain (pkg/prelude/bootstrap.js:1739:12)
    at internal/main/run_main_module.js:17:47

I'm using Node v14.16.1 and pkg 5.2.1, let me know if I'm missing any reproduction info.

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