diff -rupN --no-dereference binutils-2.38/binutils/objdump.c binutils-2.38-new/binutils/objdump.c
--- binutils-2.38/binutils/objdump.c	2023-03-07 07:56:09.197479688 +0100
+++ binutils-2.38-new/binutils/objdump.c	2023-03-07 07:56:13.956488379 +0100
@@ -1173,20 +1173,17 @@ compare_symbols (const void *ap, const v
 	return 1;
     }
 
-  if (bfd_get_flavour (bfd_asymbol_bfd (a)) == bfd_target_elf_flavour
+  /* Sort larger size ELF symbols before smaller.  See PR20337.  */
+  bfd_vma asz = 0;
+  if ((a->flags & (BSF_SECTION_SYM | BSF_SYNTHETIC)) == 0
+      && bfd_get_flavour (bfd_asymbol_bfd (a)) == bfd_target_elf_flavour)
+    asz = ((elf_symbol_type *) a)->internal_elf_sym.st_size;
+  bfd_vma bsz = 0;
+  if ((b->flags & (BSF_SECTION_SYM | BSF_SYNTHETIC)) == 0
       && bfd_get_flavour (bfd_asymbol_bfd (b)) == bfd_target_elf_flavour)
-    {
-      bfd_vma asz, bsz;
-
-      asz = 0;
-      if ((a->flags & (BSF_SECTION_SYM | BSF_SYNTHETIC)) == 0)
-	asz = ((elf_symbol_type *) a)->internal_elf_sym.st_size;
-      bsz = 0;
-      if ((b->flags & (BSF_SECTION_SYM | BSF_SYNTHETIC)) == 0)
-	bsz = ((elf_symbol_type *) b)->internal_elf_sym.st_size;
-      if (asz != bsz)
-	return asz > bsz ? -1 : 1;
-    }
+    bsz = ((elf_symbol_type *) b)->internal_elf_sym.st_size;
+  if (asz != bsz)
+    return asz > bsz ? -1 : 1;
 
   /* Symbols that start with '.' might be section names, so sort them
      after symbols that don't start with '.'.  */