With g++-4.4 I got the following errors:

fmatrix.hh:106: error: no type named ‘const_iterator’ in ‘class std::initializer_list<std::initializer_list<int> >’

Looking into the header there is indeed the const_iterator (demanded by the standard)
missing. Therefore I refactored the code to use std::copy_n and thus am omitting the iterator
type.

At the same time I made the actual copying safer for the case that the initializer_list
is of different size and people compile with -DNDEBUG. The assertion for the size is still
left in there. Remove the assert or the size computation at your discretion.