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diff --git a/doc/source/reference/c-api.array.rst b/doc/source/reference/c-api.array.rst
index 85cf3c317..cef400fad 100644
--- a/doc/source/reference/c-api.array.rst
+++ b/doc/source/reference/c-api.array.rst
@@ -165,13 +165,13 @@ with misaligned data.
at least *aobj* ->nd in size). You may want to typecast the
returned pointer to the data type of the ndarray.
-.. cfunction:: void* PyArray_GETPTR1(PyObject* obj, <npy_intp> i)
+.. cfunction:: void* PyArray_GETPTR1(PyArrayObject* obj, npy_intp i)
-.. cfunction:: void* PyArray_GETPTR2(PyObject* obj, <npy_intp> i, <npy_intp> j)
+.. cfunction:: void* PyArray_GETPTR2(PyArrayObject* obj, npy_intp i, npy_intp j)
-.. cfunction:: void* PyArray_GETPTR3(PyObject* obj, <npy_intp> i, <npy_intp> j, <npy_intp> k)
+.. cfunction:: void* PyArray_GETPTR3(PyArrayObject* obj, npy_intp i, npy_intp j, npy_intp k)
-.. cfunction:: void* PyArray_GETPTR4(PyObject* obj, <npy_intp> i, <npy_intp> j, <npy_intp> k, <npy_intp> l)
+.. cfunction:: void* PyArray_GETPTR4(PyArrayObject* obj, npy_intp i, npy_intp j, npy_intp k, npy_intp l)
Quick, inline access to the element at the given coordinates in
the ndarray, *obj*, which must have respectively 1, 2, 3, or 4
@@ -1062,7 +1062,7 @@ Converting data types
*arr* is an array scalar (has 0 dimensions), it finds the data type
of smallest size to which the value may be converted
without overflow or truncation to an integer.
-
+
This function will not demote complex to float or anything to
boolean, but will demote a signed integer to an unsigned integer
when the scalar value is positive.
@@ -1088,7 +1088,7 @@ Converting data types
Categories are determined by first checking which of boolean,
integer (int/uint), or floating point (float/complex) the maximum
kind of all the arrays and the scalars are.
-
+
If there are only scalars or the maximum category of the scalars
is higher than the maximum category of the arrays,
the data types are combined with :cfunc:`PyArray_PromoteTypes`
@@ -1310,11 +1310,21 @@ of the constant names is deprecated in 1.7.
The data area is in Fortran-style contiguous order (first index varies
the fastest).
-Notice that contiguous 1-d arrays are always both Fortran contiguous
-and C contiguous. Both of these flags can be checked and are convenience
-flags only as whether or not an array is :cdata:`NPY_ARRAY_C_CONTIGUOUS`
-or :cdata:`NPY_ARRAY_F_CONTIGUOUS` can be determined by the ``strides``,
-``dimensions``, and ``itemsize`` attributes.
+.. note::
+
+ Arrays can be both C-style and Fortran-style contiguous simultaneously.
+ This is clear for 1-dimensional arrays, but can also be true for higher
+ dimensional arrays.
+
+ Even for contiguous arrays a stride for a given dimension
+ ``arr.strides[dim]`` may be *arbitrary* if ``arr.shape[dim] == 1``
+ or the array has no elements.
+ It does *not* generally hold that ``self.strides[-1] == self.itemsize``
+ for C-style contiguous arrays or ``self.strides[0] == self.itemsize`` for
+ Fortran-style contiguous arrays is true. The correct way to access the
+ ``itemsize`` of an array from the C API is ``PyArray_ITEMSIZE(arr)``.
+
+ .. seealso:: :ref:`Internal memory layout of an ndarray <arrays.ndarray>`
.. cvar:: NPY_ARRAY_OWNDATA
@@ -1322,7 +1332,7 @@ or :cdata:`NPY_ARRAY_F_CONTIGUOUS` can be determined by the ``strides``,
.. cvar:: NPY_ARRAY_ALIGNED
- The data area is aligned appropriately (for all strides).
+ The data area and all array elements are aligned appropriately.
.. cvar:: NPY_ARRAY_WRITEABLE
@@ -1432,14 +1442,20 @@ For all of these macros *arr* must be an instance of a (subclass of)
:cdata:`NPY_ARRAY_OWNDATA`, :cdata:`NPY_ARRAY_ALIGNED`,
:cdata:`NPY_ARRAY_WRITEABLE`, :cdata:`NPY_ARRAY_UPDATEIFCOPY`.
-.. cfunction:: PyArray_ISCONTIGUOUS(arr)
+.. cfunction:: PyArray_IS_C_CONTIGUOUS(arr)
Evaluates true if *arr* is C-style contiguous.
-.. cfunction:: PyArray_ISFORTRAN(arr)
+.. cfunction:: PyArray_IS_F_CONTIGUOUS(arr)
Evaluates true if *arr* is Fortran-style contiguous.
+.. cfunction:: PyArray_ISFORTRAN(arr)
+
+ Evaluates true if *arr* is Fortran-style contiguous and *not*
+ C-style contiguous. :cfunc:`PyArray_IS_F_CONTIGUOUS`
+ is the correct way to test for Fortran-style contiguity.
+
.. cfunction:: PyArray_ISWRITEABLE(arr)
Evaluates true if the data area of *arr* can be written to