//          in it will become part of the function. In particular, no
//          automatic skipping of dummy input operations is performed.
//  ninputs - number of elements in `inputs` array
//  inputs - array of TF_Outputs that specify the inputs to the function.
//           If `ninputs` is zero (the function takes no inputs), `inputs`
//           can be null. The names used for function inputs are normalized