diff -rup annobin.orig/gcc-plugin/annobin.cc annobin-10.64/gcc-plugin/annobin.cc
--- annobin.orig/gcc-plugin/annobin.cc	2022-04-06 12:55:02.350469755 +0100
+++ annobin-10.64/gcc-plugin/annobin.cc	2022-04-06 12:55:28.503296390 +0100
@@ -1851,7 +1851,7 @@ annobin_emit_start_sym_and_version_note
 	 Ensure that we do not have empty special text sections so that the
 	 annobin start symbols are never beyond the end of the sections.  */
 #ifndef ANNOBIN_NOP_INSN
-#define ANNOBIN_NOP_INSN ".nop"
+#define ANNOBIN_NOP_INSN "nop"
 #endif
       if (* suffix && enable_ppc64_nops)
 	annobin_emit_asm (ANNOBIN_NOP_INSN,