// functions.
  virtual void MarkAsResult(Gradient* gradient) const = 0;

  // Deletes the input tensor.
  virtual void DeleteGradient(Gradient* gradient) const = 0;
};

// Traces the execution of operations, doing eager garbage collection, and
// exporting a full trace so other code can do backpropagation. Not thread-safe.
template <typename Gradient, typename BackwardFunction, typename TapeTensor>
class GradientTape {
 public:

/// max item age (in seconds) and max entries.
///
/// This class is thread safe.
template <typename T>
class ExpiringLRUCache {
 public:
  /// A `max_age` of 0 means that nothing is cached. A `max_entries` of 0 means
  /// that there is no limit on the number of entries in the cache (however, if
  /// `max_age` is also 0, the cache will not be populated).

                                                TF_Status* status);

// Infer OpInfo::TensorProperties for graph nodes inputs/outputs.
//
// Typical use case, is to infer tensor properties from a graph, before doing
// optimization pass. Nodes modified during optimization pass have to be
// invalidated, to prevent further incorrect optimizations based on wrong shape
// and data type properties.

  ///    been a full block).
  /// 3) `TF_OUT_OF_RANGE` if the read from the remote filesystem succeeded, but
  ///    the file contents do not extend past `offset` and thus nothing was
  ///    placed in `out`.
  /// 4) `TF_OK` otherwise (i.e. the read succeeded, and at least one byte was
  /// placed
  ///    in `buffer`).
  ///
  /// Caller is responsible for allocating memory for `buffer`.