Handling local scope variables

[thepsauce]

I am writing a scripting languages that has local variables living in only
a particular scope.  I use JIT to compile to machine code.

I wonder how a C block like the following is represented in JIT:
{
    int outer_scope = 8;
    {
        int inner_scope = 9;
        ...
    } // inner_scope is now discarded
}

It seems like I can only add variables to functions but not to blocks.
Would I need to use gcc_jit_function_new_temp() with a map from char*
to gcc_jit_lvalue*?

I have another related question: When calling gcc_jit_function_new_local()
twice with the same arguments, will the same lvalue pointer be returned?

Regards
TheProgrammingSauce