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Subject: [3.13] gh-136663: fix signatures of PyFloat_Pack/Unpack in docs (GH-136664) (#136667)
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[3.13] gh-136663: fix signatures of PyFloat_Pack/Unpack in docs (GH-136664) (#136667)

gh-136663: fix signatures of PyFloat_Pack/Unpack in docs (GH-136664)
(cherry picked from commit e4654e0b3e7d802c8fe984cf39a36a42b67de1ad)

Co-authored-by: Sergey B Kirpichev <skirpichev@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/c-api/float.rst b/Doc/c-api/float.rst
index 1da37a5bcaee..cf91ff74c1fb 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/float.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/float.rst
@@ -121,15 +121,15 @@ There are two problems on non-IEEE platforms:
 * What this does is undefined if *x* is a NaN or infinity.
 * ``-0.0`` and ``+0.0`` produce the same bytes string.
 
-.. c:function:: int PyFloat_Pack2(double x, unsigned char *p, int le)
+.. c:function:: int PyFloat_Pack2(double x, char *p, int le)
 
    Pack a C double as the IEEE 754 binary16 half-precision format.
 
-.. c:function:: int PyFloat_Pack4(double x, unsigned char *p, int le)
+.. c:function:: int PyFloat_Pack4(double x, char *p, int le)
 
    Pack a C double as the IEEE 754 binary32 single precision format.
 
-.. c:function:: int PyFloat_Pack8(double x, unsigned char *p, int le)
+.. c:function:: int PyFloat_Pack8(double x, char *p, int le)
 
    Pack a C double as the IEEE 754 binary64 double precision format.
 
@@ -151,14 +151,14 @@ Return value: The unpacked double.  On error, this is ``-1.0`` and
 Note that on a non-IEEE platform this will refuse to unpack a bytes string that
 represents a NaN or infinity.
 
-.. c:function:: double PyFloat_Unpack2(const unsigned char *p, int le)
+.. c:function:: double PyFloat_Unpack2(const char *p, int le)
 
    Unpack the IEEE 754 binary16 half-precision format as a C double.
 
-.. c:function:: double PyFloat_Unpack4(const unsigned char *p, int le)
+.. c:function:: double PyFloat_Unpack4(const char *p, int le)
 
    Unpack the IEEE 754 binary32 single precision format as a C double.
 
-.. c:function:: double PyFloat_Unpack8(const unsigned char *p, int le)
+.. c:function:: double PyFloat_Unpack8(const char *p, int le)
 
    Unpack the IEEE 754 binary64 double precision format as a C double.