wpautop treats html comments as content

[opajaap]

This php code:

$str = '<div>My div1</div><!-- comment --><div>My div2</div>';
echo $str.'<br/>'.wpautop($str);

Produces this output as seen in the page source:

<div>My div1</div><!-- comment --><div>My div2</div><br/><div>My div1</div>
<p><!-- comment -->
<div>My div2</div>

I.e. unbalanced

<p>

and wrong layout.

[swissspidy]

There were some changes in #33645 regarding wpautop and HTML comments.

Can you confirm this still breaks when running trunk / a nightly build?

[opajaap]

This problem still exists on version 4.4-alpha-34061

[lkraav]

This is still a problem in 4.4.2.