diff --git a/src/jse/luajc.java b/src/jse/luajc.java
index f403e8f7..b98963e5 100644
--- a/src/jse/luajc.java
+++ b/src/jse/luajc.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 * THE SOFTWARE.
 ******************************************************************************/
 
+import java.io.DataInputStream;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.FileOutputStream;
@@ -47,9 +48,8 @@ public class luajc {
 		"  -s src	source directory\n" +
 		"  -d dir	destination directory\n" +
 		"  -p pkg	package prefix to apply to all classes\n" +
-		"  -n       no debug information (strip debug)\n" +
-		"  -i<n>    number format 'n', (n=0,1 or 4, default="+DumpState.NUMBER_FORMAT_DEFAULT+")\n" +
 		"  -r		recursively compile all\n" +
+		"  -l		load classes to verify generated bytecode\n" +
 		"  -v   	verbose\n";
 	
 	private static void usageExit() {
@@ -59,10 +59,9 @@ public class luajc {
 
 	private String srcdir = null;
 	private String destdir = null;
-	private boolean stripdebug = false;
-	private int numberformat = DumpState.NUMBER_FORMAT_DEFAULT;
 	private boolean recurse = false;
 	private boolean verbose = false;
+	private boolean loadclasses = false;
 	private String pkgprefix = null;
 	private List<InputFile> files = new ArrayList<InputFile>();
 
@@ -91,13 +90,8 @@ public class luajc {
 						usageExit();
 					destdir = args[i];
 					break;
-				case 'n':
-					stripdebug = true;
-					break;
-				case 'i':
-					if ( args[i].length() <= 2 )
-						usageExit();
-					numberformat = Integer.parseInt(args[i].substring(2));
+				case 'l':
+					loadclasses = true;
 					break;
 				case 'p':
 					if ( ++i >= args.length )
@@ -122,8 +116,6 @@ public class luajc {
 			System.out.println(version);
 			System.out.println("srcdir: "+srcdir);
 			System.out.println("destdir: "+srcdir);
-			System.out.println("stripdebug: "+stripdebug);
-			System.out.println("numberformat: "+numberformat);
 			System.out.println("files: "+seeds);
 			System.out.println("recurse: "+recurse);
 		}
@@ -193,8 +185,7 @@ public class luajc {
 			this.outdir = new File(outdirpath);
 		}
 	}
-	
-	
+		
 	private void processFile( InputFile inf ) {
 		inf.outdir.mkdirs();
 		try {
@@ -203,7 +194,7 @@ public class luajc {
 
 	        // create the chunk
 			FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream( inf.infile );
-			Hashtable t = LuaJC.getInstance().compileAll(fis, inf.luachunkname, inf.srcfilename);
+			final Hashtable t = LuaJC.getInstance().compileAll(fis, inf.luachunkname, inf.srcfilename);
 			fis.close();
 			
 	        // write out the chunk
@@ -221,7 +212,33 @@ public class luajc {
 	        	fos.write( bytes );
 	        	fos.close();
 	        }
-	        
+
+        	// try to load the files
+        	if ( loadclasses ) {
+				ClassLoader loader = new ClassLoader() {
+			         public Class findClass(String classname) throws ClassNotFoundException {
+			        	 String key = classname.replace('.', '/');
+			        	 byte[] bytes = (byte[]) t.get(key);
+			        	 if ( bytes != null )
+			        		 return defineClass(classname, bytes, 0, bytes.length);
+			        	 return super.findClass(classname);
+			         }
+				};
+            	for ( Enumeration e = t.keys(); e.hasMoreElements(); ) {
+                	String key = (String) e.nextElement();
+                	String classname = key.replace('/', '.');
+	        		try {
+                		Class c = loader.loadClass(classname);
+                		if ( verbose )
+    	        			System.out.println("    loaded "+classname+" as "+c );
+	        		} catch ( Throwable th ) {
+	        			System.out.flush();
+	        			System.err.println("    failed to load "+classname+": "+th );
+	        			System.err.flush();
+	        		}
+            	}
+        	}
+        	
 		} catch ( Throwable t ) {
 			t.printStackTrace( System.err );
 		}