Change default C compiler output

Question

Is there a way to change the default a.out to something nicer, like file.c automatically becomes file?

I know one can do this with gcc file.c -o file, but... is there something easier?

Answer 1

It's a bit dirty, but you could write a shell script to automatically append the -o filename.

Answer 2

No.

Although if you have make available, you can just do:

make file