Interesting behaviour of type “decimal” in C#

Question

If we declare padding as const decimal, the padding is not working.

mymoney = 1.2 and your money = 1.20, how can this behavior be explained?

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Answer 1

The sum operation with the constant padding is getting completely excluded from the MSIL, yet it is there for a non-constant field. I was not able to find any references to FCallAddSub function, unfortunately, but that's the one who "optimizes" the call.