-   Check if your changes are consistent with the
    [guidelines](#general-guidelines-and-philosophy-for-contribution).
-   Changes are consistent with the [Coding Style](#c-coding-style).
-   Run the [unit tests](#running-unit-tests).

## How to become a contributor and submit your own code

// Returns the device of the operation that produced `h`. If `h` was produced by
// a copy, returns the destination device of the copy. Note that the returned
// device name is not always the device holding the tensor handle's memory. If
// you want the latter, use TFE_TensorHandleBackingDeviceName. This function
// will block till the operation that produces `h` has completed.

  /// was cached, a coordination lock, and state & condition variables.
  ///
  /// Thread safety:
  /// The iterator and timestamp fields should only be accessed while holding
  /// the block-cache-wide mu_ instance variable. The state variable should only
  /// be accessed while holding the Block's mu lock. The data vector should only
  /// be accessed after state == FINISHED, and it should never be modified.
  ///

//     but plugins didn't provide will be set to `nullptr` values and core
//     TensorFlow will know to not call these on behalf of users;
//   * increased security as plugins will not be able to alter function table
//     after loading up. Thus, malicious plugins can't alter functionality to
//     probe for gadgets inside core TensorFlow. We can even protect the area
//     of memory where the copies reside to not allow any more writes to it

TF_CAPI_EXPORT void TF_SetXlaMinClusterSize(int size);

// Gets/Sets TF/XLA flag for whether(true) or not(false) to disable constant
// folding. This is for testing to ensure that XLA is being tested rather than
// Tensorflow's CPU implementation through constant folding.
TF_CAPI_EXPORT unsigned char TF_GetXlaConstantFoldingDisabled();
TF_CAPI_EXPORT void TF_SetXlaConstantFoldingDisabled(
    unsigned char should_enable);

unsigned char TF_GetXlaConstantFoldingDisabled() {
  return static_cast<unsigned char>(
      tensorflow::GetBuildXlaOpsPassFlags()->tf_xla_disable_constant_folding);
}

void TF_SetXlaConstantFoldingDisabled(unsigned char should_enable) {
  tensorflow::GetBuildXlaOpsPassFlags()->tf_xla_disable_constant_folding =
      static_cast<bool>(should_enable);
}

void TF_SetXlaMinClusterSize(int size) {
  tensorflow::MarkForCompilationPassFlags* flags =

// upstream gradients.
//
// TODO(apassos) provide concrete template instantiations for TFE_TensorHandle
// specialization, which is blocked by quite a few things needing to loop back
// into python now.
template <typename Gradient, typename BackwardFunction, typename TapeTensor>
class VSpace {
 public:
  virtual ~VSpace() {}

  // Returns the number of elements in the gradient tensor.