gh-107298: Fix numerous ref errors and typos in the C API docs (GH-108258)

21 files changed, 85 insertions, 74 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst b/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst
index f1d6c99..6e2ac0a 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst
@@ -222,17 +222,21 @@ For convenience, some of these functions will always return a
 
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithFilename(int ierr, const char *filename)
 
-   Similar to :c:func:`PyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithFilenameObject`, but the
-   filename is given as a C string.  *filename* is decoded from the filesystem
-   encoding (:func:`os.fsdecode`).
+   Similar to :c:func:`PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr`, with the additional behavior
+   that if *filename* is not ``NULL``, it is decoded from the filesystem
+   encoding (:func:`os.fsdecode`) and passed to the constructor of
+   :exc:`OSError` as a third parameter to be used to define the
+   :attr:`!filename` attribute of the exception instance.
 
    .. availability:: Windows.
 
 
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilenameObject(PyObject *type, int ierr, PyObject *filename)
 
-   Similar to :c:func:`PyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithFilenameObject`, with an
-   additional parameter specifying the exception type to be raised.
+   Similar to :c:func:`PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErr`, with the additional behavior
+   that if *filename* is not ``NULL``, it is passed to the constructor of
+   :exc:`OSError` as a third parameter to be used to define the
+   :attr:`!filename` attribute of the exception instance.
 
    .. availability:: Windows.
 
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/init_config.rst b/Doc/c-api/init_config.rst
index 3ad2d43..56b4ee0 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/init_config.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/init_config.rst
@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ PyWideStringList
    If *length* is non-zero, *items* must be non-``NULL`` and all strings must be
    non-``NULL``.
 
+   .. c:namespace:: NULL
+
    Methods:
 
    .. c:function:: PyStatus PyWideStringList_Append(PyWideStringList *list, const wchar_t *item)
@@ -101,6 +103,8 @@ PyWideStringList
 
       Python must be preinitialized to call this function.
 
+   .. c:namespace:: PyWideStringList
+
    Structure fields:
 
    .. c:member:: Py_ssize_t length
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/module.rst b/Doc/c-api/module.rst
index 187f841..979b222 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/module.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/module.rst
@@ -338,6 +338,7 @@ The available slot types are:
    The *value* pointer of this slot must point to a function of the signature:
 
    .. c:function:: PyObject* create_module(PyObject *spec, PyModuleDef *def)
+      :noindex:
 
    The function receives a :py:class:`~importlib.machinery.ModuleSpec`
    instance, as defined in :PEP:`451`, and the module definition.
@@ -372,6 +373,7 @@ The available slot types are:
    The signature of the function is:
 
    .. c:function:: int exec_module(PyObject* module)
+      :noindex:
 
    If multiple ``Py_mod_exec`` slots are specified, they are processed in the
    order they appear in the *m_slots* array.
@@ -380,6 +382,8 @@ The available slot types are:
 
    Specifies one of the following values:
 
+   .. c:namespace:: NULL
+
    .. c:macro:: Py_MOD_MULTIPLE_INTERPRETERS_NOT_SUPPORTED
 
       The module does not support being imported in subinterpreters.
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst b/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
index cf965fa..2a2cb1b 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
@@ -1292,7 +1292,7 @@ the user settings on the machine running the codec.
 
    Encode the Unicode object using the specified code page and return a Python
    bytes object.  Return ``NULL`` if an exception was raised by the codec. Use
-   :c:macro:`CP_ACP` code page to get the MBCS encoder.
+   :c:macro:`!CP_ACP` code page to get the MBCS encoder.
 
    .. versionadded:: 3.3
 
diff --git a/Doc/extending/newtypes.rst b/Doc/extending/newtypes.rst
index 386b3c8..9f166eb 100644
--- a/Doc/extending/newtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/extending/newtypes.rst
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ have an associated doc string simply by providing the text in the table.  An
 application can use the introspection API to retrieve the descriptor from the
 class object, and get the doc string using its :attr:`__doc__` attribute.
 
-As with the :c:member:`~PyTypeObject.tp_methods` table, a sentinel entry with a :c:member:`~PyMethodDef.name` value
+As with the :c:member:`~PyTypeObject.tp_methods` table, a sentinel entry with a :c:member:`~PyMethodDef.ml_name` value
 of ``NULL`` is required.
 
 .. XXX Descriptors need to be explained in more detail somewhere, but not here.
diff --git a/Doc/tools/.nitignore b/Doc/tools/.nitignore
index 09514c8..bb5515b 100644
--- a/Doc/tools/.nitignore
+++ b/Doc/tools/.nitignore
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ Doc/c-api/structures.rst
 Doc/c-api/sys.rst
 Doc/c-api/type.rst
 Doc/c-api/typeobj.rst
-Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
 Doc/extending/extending.rst
 Doc/extending/newtypes.rst
 Doc/glossary.rst
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst
index 7de48a4..d9ead57 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst
@@ -1078,17 +1078,17 @@ code, none of the changes described here will affect you very much.
 
   To upgrade an extension module to the new API, perform the following steps:
 
-* Rename :c:func:`Py_TPFLAGS_GC` to :c:func:`PyTPFLAGS_HAVE_GC`.
+* Rename :c:macro:`!Py_TPFLAGS_GC` to :c:macro:`Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_GC`.
 
 * Use :c:func:`PyObject_GC_New` or :c:func:`PyObject_GC_NewVar` to allocate
     objects, and :c:func:`PyObject_GC_Del` to deallocate them.
 
-* Rename :c:func:`PyObject_GC_Init` to :c:func:`PyObject_GC_Track` and
-    :c:func:`PyObject_GC_Fini` to :c:func:`PyObject_GC_UnTrack`.
+* Rename :c:func:`!PyObject_GC_Init` to :c:func:`PyObject_GC_Track` and
+  :c:func:`!PyObject_GC_Fini` to :c:func:`PyObject_GC_UnTrack`.
 
-* Remove :c:func:`PyGC_HEAD_SIZE` from object size calculations.
+* Remove :c:macro:`!PyGC_HEAD_SIZE` from object size calculations.
 
-* Remove calls to :c:func:`PyObject_AS_GC` and :c:func:`PyObject_FROM_GC`.
+* Remove calls to :c:func:`!PyObject_AS_GC` and :c:func:`!PyObject_FROM_GC`.
 
 * A new ``et`` format sequence was added to :c:func:`PyArg_ParseTuple`; ``et``
   takes both a parameter and an encoding name, and converts the parameter to the
@@ -1219,7 +1219,7 @@ Some of the more notable changes are:
   operator, but these features were rarely used and therefore buggy.  The
   :meth:`tolist` method and the :attr:`start`, :attr:`stop`, and :attr:`step`
   attributes are also being deprecated.  At the C level, the fourth argument to
-  the :c:func:`PyRange_New` function, ``repeat``, has also been deprecated.
+  the :c:func:`!PyRange_New` function, ``repeat``, has also been deprecated.
 
 * There were a bunch of patches to the dictionary implementation, mostly to fix
   potential core dumps if a dictionary contains objects that sneakily changed
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst
index 2120ee4..ba18ce3 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst
@@ -1897,7 +1897,7 @@ Changes to Python's build process and to the C API include:
   but will also mean that you can't get help for Python's built-ins.  (Contributed
   by Gustavo Niemeyer.)
 
-* The :c:func:`PyArg_NoArgs` macro is now deprecated, and code that uses it
+* The :c:func:`!PyArg_NoArgs` macro is now deprecated, and code that uses it
   should be changed.  For Python 2.2 and later, the method definition table can
   specify the :c:macro:`METH_NOARGS` flag, signalling that there are no arguments,
   and the argument checking can then be removed.  If compatibility with pre-2.2
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst
index 40b404f..cab321c 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst
@@ -1468,7 +1468,7 @@ Some of the changes to Python's build process and to the C API are:
   *X* is a NaN.   (Contributed by Tim Peters.)
 
 * C code can avoid unnecessary locking by using the new
-  :c:func:`PyEval_ThreadsInitialized` function to tell  if any thread operations
+  :c:func:`!PyEval_ThreadsInitialized` function to tell  if any thread operations
   have been performed.  If this function  returns false, no lock operations are
   needed. (Contributed by Nick Coghlan.)
 
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst
index a47327d..2df6d60 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst
@@ -2119,9 +2119,9 @@ Changes to Python's build process and to the C API include:
   the various AST nodes in :file:`Parser/Python.asdl`.  A Python script reads this
   file and generates a set of C structure definitions in
   :file:`Include/Python-ast.h`.  The :c:func:`PyParser_ASTFromString` and
-  :c:func:`PyParser_ASTFromFile`, defined in :file:`Include/pythonrun.h`, take
+  :c:func:`!PyParser_ASTFromFile`, defined in :file:`Include/pythonrun.h`, take
   Python source as input and return the root of an AST representing the contents.
-  This AST can then be turned into a code object by :c:func:`PyAST_Compile`.  For
+  This AST can then be turned into a code object by :c:func:`!PyAST_Compile`.  For
   more information, read the source code, and then ask questions on python-dev.
 
   The AST code was developed under Jeremy Hylton's management, and implemented by
@@ -2172,7 +2172,7 @@ Changes to Python's build process and to the C API include:
   ``Py_LOCAL(type)`` declares the function as returning a value of the
   specified *type* and uses a fast-calling qualifier.
   ``Py_LOCAL_INLINE(type)`` does the same thing and also requests the
-  function be inlined.  If :c:func:`PY_LOCAL_AGGRESSIVE` is defined before
+  function be inlined.  If macro :c:macro:`!PY_LOCAL_AGGRESSIVE` is defined before
   :file:`python.h` is included, a set of more aggressive optimizations are enabled
   for the module; you should benchmark the results to find out if these
   optimizations actually make the code faster.  (Contributed by Fredrik Lundh at
@@ -2181,7 +2181,7 @@ Changes to Python's build process and to the C API include:
 * ``PyErr_NewException(name, base, dict)`` can now accept a tuple of base
   classes as its *base* argument.  (Contributed by Georg Brandl.)
 
-* The :c:func:`PyErr_Warn` function for issuing warnings is now deprecated in
+* The :c:func:`!PyErr_Warn` function for issuing warnings is now deprecated in
   favour of ``PyErr_WarnEx(category, message, stacklevel)`` which lets you
   specify the number of stack frames separating this function and the caller.  A
   *stacklevel* of 1 is the function calling :c:func:`PyErr_WarnEx`, 2 is the
@@ -2191,7 +2191,7 @@ Changes to Python's build process and to the C API include:
   compiled with a C++ compiler without errors.   (Implemented by Anthony Baxter,
   Martin von Löwis, Skip Montanaro.)
 
-* The :c:func:`PyRange_New` function was removed.  It was never documented, never
+* The :c:func:`!PyRange_New` function was removed.  It was never documented, never
   used in the core code, and had dangerously lax error checking.  In the unlikely
   case that your extensions were using it, you can replace it by something like
   the following::
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
index 5c46dc8..8b3d3a3 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
@@ -977,7 +977,7 @@ can be used to include Unicode characters::
     print len(s)               # 12 Unicode characters
 
 At the C level, Python 3.0 will rename the existing 8-bit
-string type, called :c:type:`PyStringObject` in Python 2.x,
+string type, called :c:type:`!PyStringObject` in Python 2.x,
 to :c:type:`PyBytesObject`.  Python 2.6 uses ``#define``
 to support using the names :c:func:`PyBytesObject`,
 :c:func:`PyBytes_Check`, :c:func:`PyBytes_FromStringAndSize`,
@@ -3012,11 +3012,11 @@ Changes to Python's build process and to the C API include:
   bug occurred if one thread closed a file object while another thread
   was reading from or writing to the object.  In 2.6 file objects
   have a reference count, manipulated by the
-  :c:func:`PyFile_IncUseCount` and :c:func:`PyFile_DecUseCount`
+  :c:func:`!PyFile_IncUseCount` and :c:func:`!PyFile_DecUseCount`
   functions.  File objects can't be closed unless the reference count
-  is zero.  :c:func:`PyFile_IncUseCount` should be called while the GIL
+  is zero.  :c:func:`!PyFile_IncUseCount` should be called while the GIL
   is still held, before carrying out an I/O operation using the
-  ``FILE *`` pointer, and :c:func:`PyFile_DecUseCount` should be called
+  ``FILE *`` pointer, and :c:func:`!PyFile_DecUseCount` should be called
   immediately after the GIL is re-acquired.
   (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou and Gregory P. Smith.)
 
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
index 00001f9..37e2d04 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
@@ -2152,7 +2152,7 @@ Changes to Python's build process and to the C API include:
 
 * New function: stemming from the rewrite of string-to-float conversion,
   a new :c:func:`PyOS_string_to_double` function was added.  The old
-  :c:func:`PyOS_ascii_strtod` and :c:func:`PyOS_ascii_atof` functions
+  :c:func:`!PyOS_ascii_strtod` and :c:func:`!PyOS_ascii_atof` functions
   are now deprecated.
 
 * New function: :c:func:`PySys_SetArgvEx` sets the value of
@@ -2195,13 +2195,13 @@ Changes to Python's build process and to the C API include:
 
   .. XXX these macros don't seem to be described in the c-api docs.
 
-* Removed function: :c:macro:`PyEval_CallObject` is now only available
+* Removed function: :c:func:`!PyEval_CallObject` is now only available
   as a macro.  A function version was being kept around to preserve
   ABI linking compatibility, but that was in 1997; it can certainly be
   deleted by now.  (Removed by Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`8276`.)
 
-* New format codes: the :c:func:`PyFormat_FromString`,
-  :c:func:`PyFormat_FromStringV`, and :c:func:`PyErr_Format` functions now
+* New format codes: the :c:func:`!PyString_FromFormat`,
+  :c:func:`!PyString_FromFormatV`, and :c:func:`PyErr_Format` functions now
   accept ``%lld`` and ``%llu`` format codes for displaying
   C's :c:expr:`long long` types.
   (Contributed by Mark Dickinson; :issue:`7228`.)
@@ -2540,7 +2540,7 @@ For C extensions:
   instead of triggering a :exc:`DeprecationWarning` (:issue:`5080`).
 
 * Use the new :c:func:`PyOS_string_to_double` function instead of the old
-  :c:func:`PyOS_ascii_strtod` and :c:func:`PyOS_ascii_atof` functions,
+  :c:func:`!PyOS_ascii_strtod` and :c:func:`!PyOS_ascii_atof` functions,
   which are now deprecated.
 
 For applications that embed Python:
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst
index 58d42bd..b0c2529 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst
@@ -865,8 +865,8 @@ to the C API.
 
 * No more C API support for restricted execution.
 
-* :c:func:`PyNumber_Coerce`, :c:func:`PyNumber_CoerceEx`,
-  :c:func:`PyMember_Get`, and :c:func:`PyMember_Set` C APIs are removed.
+* :c:func:`!PyNumber_Coerce`, :c:func:`!PyNumber_CoerceEx`,
+  :c:func:`!PyMember_Get`, and :c:func:`!PyMember_Set` C APIs are removed.
 
 * New C API :c:func:`PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock`, works like
   :c:func:`PyImport_ImportModule` but won't block on the import lock
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst
index 3c1c9c3..e237179 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst
@@ -501,12 +501,12 @@ Changes to Python's build process and to the C API include:
 
   (Contributed by Mark Dickinson and Lisandro Dalcrin; :issue:`5175`.)
 
-* Deprecated :c:func:`PyNumber_Int`.  Use :c:func:`PyNumber_Long` instead.
+* Deprecated :c:func:`!PyNumber_Int`.  Use :c:func:`PyNumber_Long` instead.
 
   (Contributed by Mark Dickinson; :issue:`4910`.)
 
 * Added a new :c:func:`PyOS_string_to_double` function to replace the
-  deprecated functions :c:func:`PyOS_ascii_strtod` and :c:func:`PyOS_ascii_atof`.
+  deprecated functions :c:func:`!PyOS_ascii_strtod` and :c:func:`!PyOS_ascii_atof`.
 
   (Contributed by Mark Dickinson; :issue:`5914`.)
 
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst
index e4ca3c4..1e6e0be 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst
@@ -1819,8 +1819,8 @@ Removed
   into their code.
   (Contributed by Dong-hee Na and Terry J. Reedy in :issue:`42299`.)
 
-* Removed the :c:func:`PyModule_GetWarningsModule` function that was useless
-  now due to the _warnings module was converted to a builtin module in 2.6.
+* Removed the :c:func:`!PyModule_GetWarningsModule` function that was useless
+  now due to the :mod:`!_warnings` module was converted to a builtin module in 2.6.
   (Contributed by Hai Shi in :issue:`42599`.)
 
 * Remove deprecated aliases to :ref:`collections-abstract-base-classes` from
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
index fce00d3..58ce881 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
@@ -2216,7 +2216,7 @@ New Features
   * :c:func:`PyBuffer_SizeFromFormat`
   * :c:func:`PyBuffer_ToContiguous`
   * :c:func:`PyBuffer_FromContiguous`
-  * :c:func:`PyBuffer_CopyData`
+  * :c:func:`PyObject_CopyData`
   * :c:func:`PyBuffer_IsContiguous`
   * :c:func:`PyBuffer_FillContiguousStrides`
   * :c:func:`PyBuffer_FillInfo`
@@ -2562,18 +2562,18 @@ Deprecated
 
 * Deprecate the following functions to configure the Python initialization:
 
-  * :c:func:`PySys_AddWarnOptionUnicode`
-  * :c:func:`PySys_AddWarnOption`
-  * :c:func:`PySys_AddXOption`
-  * :c:func:`PySys_HasWarnOptions`
-  * :c:func:`PySys_SetArgvEx`
-  * :c:func:`PySys_SetArgv`
-  * :c:func:`PySys_SetPath`
-  * :c:func:`Py_SetPath`
-  * :c:func:`Py_SetProgramName`
-  * :c:func:`Py_SetPythonHome`
-  * :c:func:`Py_SetStandardStreamEncoding`
-  * :c:func:`_Py_SetProgramFullPath`
+  * :c:func:`!PySys_AddWarnOptionUnicode`
+  * :c:func:`!PySys_AddWarnOption`
+  * :c:func:`!PySys_AddXOption`
+  * :c:func:`!PySys_HasWarnOptions`
+  * :c:func:`!PySys_SetArgvEx`
+  * :c:func:`!PySys_SetArgv`
+  * :c:func:`!PySys_SetPath`
+  * :c:func:`!Py_SetPath`
+  * :c:func:`!Py_SetProgramName`
+  * :c:func:`!Py_SetPythonHome`
+  * :c:func:`!Py_SetStandardStreamEncoding`
+  * :c:func:`!_Py_SetProgramFullPath`
 
   Use the new :c:type:`PyConfig` API of the :ref:`Python Initialization Configuration
   <init-config>` instead (:pep:`587`).
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
index 56ac5c4..df32b76 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
@@ -2569,7 +2569,7 @@ Changes to Python's build process and to the C API include:
   to set :data:`sys.argv` without also modifying :data:`sys.path`
   (:issue:`5753`).
 
-* :c:macro:`PyEval_CallObject` is now only available in macro form.  The
+* :c:func:`!PyEval_CallObject` is now only available in macro form.  The
   function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
   now removed -- the macro was introduced in 1997 (:issue:`8276`).
 
@@ -2731,15 +2731,15 @@ require changes to your code:
 
   (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou, :issue:`10272`.)
 
-* The misleading functions :c:func:`PyEval_AcquireLock()` and
-  :c:func:`PyEval_ReleaseLock()` have been officially deprecated.  The
-  thread-state aware APIs (such as :c:func:`PyEval_SaveThread()`
-  and :c:func:`PyEval_RestoreThread()`) should be used instead.
+* The misleading functions :c:func:`!PyEval_AcquireLock` and
+  :c:func:`!PyEval_ReleaseLock` have been officially deprecated.  The
+  thread-state aware APIs (such as :c:func:`PyEval_SaveThread`
+  and :c:func:`PyEval_RestoreThread`) should be used instead.
 
 * Due to security risks, :func:`asyncore.handle_accept` has been deprecated, and
   a new function, :func:`asyncore.handle_accepted`, was added to replace it.
 
   (Contributed by Giampaolo Rodola in :issue:`6706`.)
 
-* Due to the new :term:`GIL` implementation, :c:func:`PyEval_InitThreads()`
-  cannot be called before :c:func:`Py_Initialize()` anymore.
+* Due to the new :term:`GIL` implementation, :c:func:`!PyEval_InitThreads`
+  cannot be called before :c:func:`Py_Initialize` anymore.
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
index 7e12c27..3f98c82 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
@@ -2304,7 +2304,7 @@ Functions and macros manipulating Py_UNICODE* strings:
 
 Encoders:
 
-* :c:func:`!PyUnicode_Encode`: use :c:func:`PyUnicode_AsEncodedObject`
+* :c:func:`!PyUnicode_Encode`: use :c:func:`!PyUnicode_AsEncodedObject`
 * :c:func:`!PyUnicode_EncodeUTF7`
 * :c:func:`!PyUnicode_EncodeUTF8`: use :c:func:`PyUnicode_AsUTF8` or
   :c:func:`PyUnicode_AsUTF8String`
@@ -2462,7 +2462,7 @@ Porting C code
 --------------
 
 * In the course of changes to the buffer API the undocumented
-  :c:member:`~Py_buffer.smalltable` member of the
+  :c:member:`!smalltable` member of the
   :c:type:`Py_buffer` structure has been removed and the
   layout of the :c:type:`PyMemoryViewObject` has changed.
 
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
index 86bfdc4..0c45a42 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
@@ -2512,7 +2512,7 @@ Changes in the Python API
 Changes in the C API
 --------------------
 
-* The undocumented :c:member:`~PyMemoryViewObject.format` member of the
+* The undocumented :c:member:`!format` member of the
   (non-public) :c:type:`PyMemoryViewObject` structure has been removed.
   All extensions relying on the relevant parts in ``memoryobject.h``
   must be rebuilt.
@@ -2520,7 +2520,7 @@ Changes in the C API
 * The :c:type:`PyMemAllocator` structure was renamed to
   :c:type:`PyMemAllocatorEx` and a new ``calloc`` field was added.
 
-* Removed non-documented macro :c:macro:`PyObject_REPR` which leaked references.
+* Removed non-documented macro :c:macro:`!PyObject_REPR()` which leaked references.
   Use format character ``%R`` in :c:func:`PyUnicode_FromFormat`-like functions
   to format the :func:`repr` of the object.
   (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`22453`.)
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
index c5fb5c5..7946bf9 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
@@ -1574,12 +1574,12 @@ Build and C API Changes
   * :c:func:`Py_INCREF`, :c:func:`Py_DECREF`
   * :c:func:`Py_XINCREF`, :c:func:`Py_XDECREF`
   * :c:func:`PyObject_INIT`, :c:func:`PyObject_INIT_VAR`
-  * Private functions: :c:func:`_PyObject_GC_TRACK`,
-    :c:func:`_PyObject_GC_UNTRACK`, :c:func:`_Py_Dealloc`
+  * Private functions: :c:func:`!_PyObject_GC_TRACK`,
+    :c:func:`!_PyObject_GC_UNTRACK`, :c:func:`!_Py_Dealloc`
 
   (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`35059`.)
 
-* The :c:func:`PyByteArray_Init` and :c:func:`PyByteArray_Fini` functions have
+* The :c:func:`!PyByteArray_Init` and :c:func:`!PyByteArray_Fini` functions have
   been removed. They did nothing since Python 2.7.4 and Python 3.2.0, were
   excluded from the limited API (stable ABI), and were not documented.
   (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`35713`.)
@@ -1628,7 +1628,7 @@ Build and C API Changes
   parameter for indicating the number of positional-only arguments.
   (Contributed by Pablo Galindo in :issue:`37221`.)
 
-* :c:func:`Py_SetPath` now sets :data:`sys.executable` to the program full
+* :c:func:`!Py_SetPath` now sets :data:`sys.executable` to the program full
   path (:c:func:`Py_GetProgramFullPath`) rather than to the program name
   (:c:func:`Py_GetProgramName`).
   (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`38234`.)
@@ -1845,11 +1845,11 @@ Changes in Python behavior
   always use ``sys.platform.startswith('aix')``.
   (Contributed by M. Felt in :issue:`36588`.)
 
-* :c:func:`PyEval_AcquireLock` and :c:func:`PyEval_AcquireThread` now
+* :c:func:`!PyEval_AcquireLock` and :c:func:`!PyEval_AcquireThread` now
   terminate the current thread if called while the interpreter is
   finalizing, making them consistent with :c:func:`PyEval_RestoreThread`,
   :c:func:`Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS`, and :c:func:`PyGILState_Ensure`. If this
-  behavior is not desired, guard the call by checking :c:func:`_Py_IsFinalizing`
+  behavior is not desired, guard the call by checking :c:func:`!_Py_IsFinalizing`
   or :func:`sys.is_finalizing`.
   (Contributed by Joannah Nanjekye in :issue:`36475`.)
 
@@ -2021,7 +2021,7 @@ Changes in the C API
   *cf_flags*.
   (Contributed by Guido van Rossum in :issue:`35766`.)
 
-* The :c:func:`PyEval_ReInitThreads` function has been removed from the C API.
+* The :c:func:`!PyEval_ReInitThreads` function has been removed from the C API.
   It should not be called explicitly: use :c:func:`PyOS_AfterFork_Child`
   instead.
   (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`36728`.)
@@ -2121,7 +2121,7 @@ Changes in the C API
 
   (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`32388`.)
 
-* The functions :c:func:`PyNode_AddChild` and :c:func:`PyParser_AddToken` now accept
+* The functions :c:func:`!PyNode_AddChild` and :c:func:`!PyParser_AddToken` now accept
   two additional ``int`` arguments *end_lineno* and *end_col_offset*.
 
 * The :file:`libpython38.a` file to allow MinGW tools to link directly against
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
index 5891d9a..8e2df19 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
@@ -870,9 +870,9 @@ Deprecated
   users can leverage the Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) generation and compilation
   stage, using the :mod:`ast` module.
 
-* The Public C API functions :c:func:`PyParser_SimpleParseStringFlags`,
-  :c:func:`PyParser_SimpleParseStringFlagsFilename`,
-  :c:func:`PyParser_SimpleParseFileFlags` and :c:func:`PyNode_Compile`
+* The Public C API functions :c:func:`!PyParser_SimpleParseStringFlags`,
+  :c:func:`!PyParser_SimpleParseStringFlagsFilename`,
+  :c:func:`!PyParser_SimpleParseFileFlags` and :c:func:`!PyNode_Compile`
   are deprecated and will be removed in Python 3.10 together with the old parser.
 
 * Using :data:`NotImplemented` in a boolean context has been deprecated,
@@ -923,10 +923,10 @@ Deprecated
   (Contributed by Batuhan Taskaya in :issue:`39639` and :issue:`39969`
   and Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`39988`.)
 
-* The :c:func:`PyEval_InitThreads` and :c:func:`PyEval_ThreadsInitialized`
+* The :c:func:`!PyEval_InitThreads` and :c:func:`!PyEval_ThreadsInitialized`
   functions are now deprecated and will be removed in Python 3.11. Calling
-  :c:func:`PyEval_InitThreads` now does nothing. The :term:`GIL` is initialized
-  by :c:func:`Py_Initialize()` since Python 3.7.
+  :c:func:`!PyEval_InitThreads` now does nothing. The :term:`GIL` is initialized
+  by :c:func:`Py_Initialize` since Python 3.7.
   (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`39877`.)
 
 * Passing ``None`` as the first argument to the :func:`shlex.split` function