fix compat breaking: revive workaround padding in decode() #3101

Job	Run time
rust-integration-test-strategy-matrix	2s
rust-integration-test-strategy-matrix	2s
actionlint	12s
actionlint	12s
rust-lint	3m 51s
rust-lint	3m 51s
rust-unit-test	4m 57s
rust-unit-test	4m 57s
shellcheck	11s
shellcheck	11s
validate-cargo-lock	22s
validate-cargo-lock	22s
build-and-test-java-api (windows-latest)	6m 19s
build-and-test-java-api (windows-latest)	6m 19s
build-and-test-java-api (macos-latest)	2m 41s
build-and-test-java-api (macos-latest)	2m 41s
build-and-test-java-api (ubuntu-latest)	3m 3s
build-and-test-java-api (ubuntu-latest)	3m 3s
build-and-test-python-api (windows-latest)	5m 23s
build-and-test-python-api (windows-latest)	5m 23s
build-and-test-python-api (macos-latest)	3m 11s
build-and-test-python-api (macos-latest)	3m 11s
build-and-test-python-api (ubuntu-latest)	2m 54s
build-and-test-python-api (ubuntu-latest)	3m 10s
build-unix-cpp-example (macos-latest, osx-x64-cpu-cpp-shared)	1m 50s
build-unix-cpp-example (macos-latest, osx-x64-cpu-cpp-shared)	1m 50s
build-unix-cpp-example (ubuntu-latest, linux-x64-cpu-cpp-shared)	1m 55s
build-unix-cpp-example (ubuntu-latest, linux-x64-cpu-cpp-shared)	1m 55s
build-windows-cpp-example	3m 56s
build-windows-cpp-example	3m 56s
c-header	42s
c-header	42s
rust-integration-test (macos-12)	2m 15s
rust-integration-test (macos-12)	2m 15s
rust-integration-test (ubuntu-20.04)	1m 27s
rust-integration-test (ubuntu-20.04)	1m 27s
	1h 30m 38s

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