Chadlia Jerad

Adding support of transient federates

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This PR replaces https://github.com/lf-lang/lingua-franca/pull/1695. The companion PR in `reactor-c` is https://github.com/lf-lang/reactor-c/pull/358. It implements the transient feature in the federation execution. Details of the implementation are documented in Discussion https://github.com/lf-lang/lingua-franca/discussions/2212.

Validation of transient annotation

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Currently, transient federates are only supported: - within the C target, - and when the coordination is centralized. The validation rules in LF Validator need to support these conditions.

Execution is launched in CI, despite error in code generation

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There is a code generation error [here](https://github.com/lf-lang/lingua-franca/actions/runs/5871228264/job/15920103516#step:7:860), as I forgot the `self` construct to refer to a state variable ([here](https://github.com/lf-lang/lingua-franca/actions/runs/5871228264/job/15920103516#step:7:853)). The [execution is launched](https://github.com/lf-lang/lingua-franca/actions/runs/5871228264/job/15920103516#step:7:887) though, causing the RTI to just...

Authentication inheritance consistency when importing a reactor in a federated execution

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In a federated program that does not enable authentication (using `auth` C target property), importing a reactor from a file where authentication is required will cause the program to fail....