diff --git a/src/base/stats/info.cc b/src/base/stats/info.cc
index c6024e7d84..de1fb7f811 100644
--- a/src/base/stats/info.cc
+++ b/src/base/stats/info.cc
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ validateStatName(const std::string &name)
         return false;
 
     std::vector<std::string> vec;
-    tokenize(vec, name, '.');
+    tokenize(vec, name, '.', false);
     std::vector<std::string>::const_iterator item = vec.begin();
     while (item != vec.end()) {
         if (item->empty())
diff --git a/src/mem/slicc/symbols/StateMachine.py b/src/mem/slicc/symbols/StateMachine.py
index 77c999d70e..0c4651dad7 100644
--- a/src/mem/slicc/symbols/StateMachine.py
+++ b/src/mem/slicc/symbols/StateMachine.py
@@ -870,7 +870,7 @@ $c_ident::regStats()
 
     for (${ident}_Event event = ${ident}_Event_FIRST;
                  event < ${ident}_Event_NUM; ++event) {
-        std::string stat_name = ".inTransLatHist." +
+        std::string stat_name = "inTransLatHist." +
                                 ${ident}_Event_to_string(event);
         statistics::Scalar* r = new statistics::Scalar(&stats,
                                              (stat_name + ".total").c_str());