add references to buffer format type documentation

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Cython/Utility/Buffer.c b/Cython/Utility/Buffer.c
index 534a997cc..1357f4807 100644
--- a/Cython/Utility/Buffer.c
+++ b/Cython/Utility/Buffer.c
@@ -199,7 +199,10 @@ nofail:
     Buffer type checking. Utility code for checking that acquired
     buffers match our assumptions. We only need to check ndim and
     the format string; the access mode/flags is checked by the
-    exporter.
+    exporter. See:
+
+    http://docs.python.org/3/library/struct.html
+    http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3118/#additions-to-the-struct-string-syntax
 
     The alignment code is copied from _struct.c in Python.
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