Access vector type OpenCL

Question

I have a variable whithin a kernel like:

int16 element;

I would like to know if there is a way to adress the third int in element like

Answer 1

Well there is still dirtier way :), I hope OpenCL provides better way of traversing vector elements.

Here is my way of doing it.

union
    {
      int  elarray[16];
      int16 elvector;
     } element;

//traverse the elements
for ( i = 0; i < 16; i++)
 element.elarray[i] = temp[vector[i]]++;

Btw rand() function is not available in OpenCL kernel, how did you make it work ??