// AssignSub, ...).
  void GeneralAssignment(const char* op_name, TFE_Context* context,
                         TFE_TensorHandle* value, TF_Status* status);

  // The a handle for the resource-dtype tensor pointing to the variable's
  // buffer.
  TFE_TensorHandle* handle_;
  // The dtype of the variable's buffer (input dtype for assignments, output
  // dtype of read operations).
  TF_DataType type_;
};