// Some TF ops need a step container to be set to limit the lifetime of some
// resources (mostly TensorArray and Stack, used in while loop gradients in
// graph mode). Calling this on a context tells it to start a step.
TF_CAPI_EXPORT extern void TFE_ContextStartStep(TFE_Context* ctx);

// Ends a step. When there is no active step (that is, every started step has

//           can be null. The names used for function inputs are normalized
//           names of the operations (usually placeholders) pointed to by
//           `inputs`. These operation names should start with a letter.
//           Normalization will convert all letters to lowercase and
//           non-alphanumeric characters to '_' to make resulting names match