//
// Conventions:
// * We use the prefix TF_ for everything in the API.
// * Objects are always passed around as pointers to opaque structs
//   and these structs are allocated/deallocated via the API.
// * TF_Status holds error information.  It is an object type
//   and therefore is passed around as a pointer to an opaque
//   struct as mentioned above.
// * Every call that has a TF_Status* argument clears it on success

    unsigned char enable);
TF_CAPI_EXPORT unsigned char TF_SetTfXlaCpuGlobalJit(unsigned char enable);

// Sets XLA's auto jit mode according to the specified string, which is parsed
// as if passed in XLA_FLAGS. This has global effect.
TF_CAPI_EXPORT void TF_SetXlaAutoJitMode(const char* mode);

// Returns whether the single GPU or general XLA auto jit optimizations are
// enabled through MarkForCompilationPassFlags.

  // a tensor with the result.
  virtual Gradient* AggregateGradients(
      gtl::ArraySlice<Gradient*> gradient_tensors) const = 0;

  // Calls the passed-in backward function.
  //
  // `unneeded_gradients` contains sorted list of input indices for which a
  // gradient is not required.
  virtual Status CallBackwardFunction(

#endif

// TF_Device is a C wrapper to the C++ TF Device class. This is to be passed
// through TF_OpKernelContext, and is opaque to plugin.
typedef struct TF_Device TF_Device;

typedef struct TF_VariableInfo TF_VariableInfo;

// Returns a `TF_Device` pointer, which actually points to a C++ `Device`.
// Currently we only allow `NextPluggableDevice` to be casted as `TF_Device`,
// but in theory every this is a C API for every kind of device.