Odds are that the crank arm had some minor damage to the lead threads which can make it hard to thread in the crank puller... unless the crank arms say Stronglight or T.A. the odds of the threads being anything but standard are pretty slim.

With Stronglight you only have to worry about much old cranks as they adopted a standard 22 by 1 threading in 1982 but used a 23.35 by 1.0 prior to this and TA cranks use a 23 by 1.0 puller.

22 by 1 mm is the standard crank thread which was adopted from Campagnolo and is used by most of the square tapered cranks out there... the only other oddity would be some early Lambert cranks that use a 7/8 by 24 tpi threading.