Since we switched from autotools to Meson in commit
94592c14, we don't need to include
`config.h` early to properly enable large file support.  Meson passes
the required macros on the compiler command line instead of defining
them in `config.h`.

This means we can include `config.h` at any time, whenever we want to
check its macros, and there are no ordering constraints.

afCloseFile() uses free(), so we need to use malloc().

This eliminates some overhead, because the compiler doesn't need to
consider these functions throwing.

Replaces decoder_data() and others.

Replaces decoder_initialized().

Prepare for a Decoder API redesign based on an abstract class with
virtual methods.

The old struct config_param remains only for top-level string options.

Reduce header dependencies.

The plugin assumes that the size is known, but does not verify it at
runtime.