Description

When setting a property outside of a constructor in a static properties setup it will report CA1861, if the same array is set via a constructor the analyzer will not report. It's possible that when the array is set via a constructor parameter an optimization is made by the compiler that it can't make by setting the property "after" the constructor.

Reproduction Steps

The following will report CA1861 on the array creation.

        public class TestClass
        {
            public List<IList<string>> ListEntry
            {
                get; set;
            }
        }

        public static TestClass TestClass1 = new TestClass { ListEntry = new List<IList<string>> { new[] { "test" } } };

If the array is a constructor parameter it will not report like in the following

public class TestClass
 {
  public TestClass(List<IList<string>> ListEntry) { }
}

public static TestClass TestClass1 = new TestClass(new List<IList<string>> { new[] { "test" } });

Expected behavior

As this is a static property and the category is performance I believe it should not fire as it is only allocating the array once.

Actual behavior

The analyzer should not detect an issue

Regression?

No response

Known Workarounds

Add the initialization to a constructor or invoke the auto refactor in VS to make a cosnt array.

Configuration

Windows 11 x64 on .Net 8 RC2 (8.0.0-rc.2.23479.6)

Other information

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