// Create a variable handle with name `variable_name` on a device with name
// `device_name`.
TFE_TensorHandle* CreateVarHandle(TFE_Context* ctx,
                                  const tensorflow::string& device_name,
                                  const tensorflow::string& variable_name);

// Create a variable with value `value` and name `variable_name` on a device
// with name `device_name`.

// other languages.
//
// The class currently only interacts with single-slice (i.e., non-partitioned)
// variables.
class CheckpointReader {
 public:
  CheckpointReader(const string& filename, TF_Status* status);

  bool HasTensor(const string& name) const;
  const string DebugString() const;

  // Returns a map from variable names to their shapes.  Slices of a partitioned
  // tensor are combined into a single entry.

typedef struct TF_WhileParams {
  // The number of inputs to the while loop, i.e. the number of loop variables.
  // This is the size of cond_inputs, body_inputs, and body_outputs.
  const int ninputs;

  // The while condition graph. The inputs are the current values of the loop
  // variables. The output should be a scalar boolean.
  TF_Graph* const cond_graph;
  const TF_Output* const cond_inputs;