fix old markup
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/abstract.rst b/Doc/c-api/abstract.rst
index 66426f7..db4c02a 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/abstract.rst
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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
will raise a Python exception.
It is not possible to use these functions on objects that are not properly
-initialized, such as a list object that has been created by :cfunc:`PyList_New`,
+initialized, such as a list object that has been created by :c:func:`PyList_New`,
but whose items have not been set to some non-\ ``NULL`` value yet.
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