Issue #23352: Document that Py_buffer.suboffsets must be NULL if no suboffsets
are required.
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/buffer.rst b/Doc/c-api/buffer.rst
index 74693ac..7df9c33 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/buffer.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/buffer.rst
@@ -98,8 +98,11 @@
suboffset value that it negative indicates that no de-referencing should
occur (striding in a contiguous memory block).
+ If all suboffsets are negative (i.e. no de-referencing is needed, then
+ this field must be NULL (the default value).
+
Here is a function that returns a pointer to the element in an N-D array
- pointed to by an N-dimesional index when there are both non-NULL strides
+ pointed to by an N-dimensional index when there are both non-NULL strides
and suboffsets::
void *get_item_pointer(int ndim, void *buf, Py_ssize_t *strides,