On 2 June 2014 19:04, Arthur Schwarz wrote: > > Win 7 64-bit > gcc 4.8.2 (64-bit) cygwin > > ref: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23900921/c-scanf-la-returns-0 > > I don’t know whether you or cygwin supports the gcc runtime library. The sscanf is not part of any gcc library, it's part of the platform's C library. For cygwin, it's probably part of cygwin.