// completed. This is only valid on local TFE_TensorHandles. The pointer
// returned will be on the device in which the TFE_TensorHandle resides (so e.g.
// for a GPU tensor this will return a pointer to GPU memory). The pointer is
// only guaranteed to be valid until TFE_DeleteTensorHandle is called on this
// TensorHandle. Only supports POD data types.

// gradient function can accept None values. e.g. FusedBatchNorm outputs 5
// values and hence receives 5 gradient values during backprop. However the
// gradient function uses only the first of those values and ignores the rest.
// The entry, "FusedBatchNorm": [1, 2, 3, 4], indicates that only the gradient
// corresponding to index 0 is used, and the gradient values at indices 1-4 are
// ignored (and hence can be None). The backprop algorithm can then leverage

  virtual void StartStep() = 0;
  // Destroy the step resource container for a training step.
  virtual void EndStep() = 0;

  // Return the Eager Executor for current thread. Please note that Eager
  // Executor is only used in current TF but not in TFRT.
  virtual EagerExecutor& Executor() = 0;
  // Update the Eager Executor for current thread.
  virtual void SetExecutorForThread(EagerExecutor* executor) = 0;