diff --git a/linux-ramdump-parser-v2/gdbmi.py b/linux-ramdump-parser-v2/gdbmi.py
index fbc5ed43916f43eb73398f685da7ebed21263069..0833887e60c6cdfa4821f20ba8e5b35fb17af8ad 100644
--- a/linux-ramdump-parser-v2/gdbmi.py
+++ b/linux-ramdump-parser-v2/gdbmi.py
@@ -294,6 +294,7 @@ class GdbMI(object):
 
     def get_value_of_string(self, symbol):
         """Returns the value of a symbol (as a string)"""
+	self._run("set print elements 256")
         cmd = 'print /s {0}'.format(symbol)
         result = self._run(cmd)
         if len(result.lines) == 0: