linux shell: for arg; do

Reading LTP shell code it uses strange for loop syntax:

for arg; do
    TCID="${TCID}_$arg"
done

1. How does it takes arguments? I’d expect it loops over $arg, separating with $IFS, but when trying $ arg="aa bb"; for arg; do echo $arg; done and it prints nothing.
2. Is it a bashism?

>Solution :

It’s a special way of handling command-line options using for loop.

It’s equivalent to:

for arg in "$@"; do
    TCID="${TCID}_$arg"
done

It’s not specific to bash. It’s defined in POSIX:

The for Loop

The for loop shall execute a sequence of commands for
each member in a list of items. The for loop requires that the
reserved words do and done be used to delimit the sequence of
commands.

The format for the for loop is as follows:

for name [ in [word … ]] do
    compound-list
done

First, the list of words following in shall be expanded to generate a
list of items. Then, the variable name shall be set to each item, in
turn, and the compound-list executed each time. If no items result
from the expansion, the compound-list shall not be executed. Omitting:

in word…

shall be equivalent to:

in "$@"