// Registers a custom device for use with eager execution.
//
// Eager operations may be placed on this device, e.g.  `with
// tf.device("CUSTOM"):` from Python if `device_name` for this call is
// "/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:CUSTOM:0".
//
// The custom device defines copy operations for moving TensorHandles on and
// off, and an execution operation for named operations. Often execution will

  if (call_state_.top().backward_tape != nullptr) {
    // If backward_tape is not null, then this call to Accumulate is the result
    // of a still-active call to Accumulate which is running operations. We
    // forward these operations to backward_tape so the outer Accumulate call
    // can do its work.
    //
    // Rather than re-entering and delegating Accumulate like this, we could