Hi Ki,
Actually I used the build in "Blink the LED" project using a default settings. Just device and project name were set by me.
There are just simple C instructions, not functions, therefore during single stepping the counter increases by 2 ... 5 (or little more), CPU cycles each time, depending on instruction and location of operands. I tested it on the CCS5.4 and it worked correctly.
The obtained count in my first post were obtained starting from T:0, after first single step: T: 65,537 and after second single step T:131,087 ... . Of course the actual values depends on current instruction, but definite the values are incorrect.
The problem was obtained after clean CCS5.5... setup for just MSP430 uC, and after installing all available updates until January 6 as well.
At the moment I am out of office for some days, and I do not have any hardware with me, but anyone can tray it by self on eZ430-F2013.
Best regards,
Juris