// devices, so executing tf.functions which contain operations placed on the
// custom devices will fail.
//
// `device_name` must not name an existing physical or custom device. It must
// follow the format:
//
//    /job:<name>/replica:<replica>/task:<task>/device:<type>:<device_num>
//
// If the device is successfully registered, `status` is set to TF_OK. Otherwise

/// the 3 types of files. In all other cases, there is no need to modify the
/// address of the opaque data pointer, hence the wrapper pointer is marked
/// `const`.
///
/// For consistency, the arguments on all these functions follow the same
/// pattern: first we have the opaque pointer argument ("this" above), then the
/// input arguments, then the in-out arguments (if any) and we finish the