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

Using pointers is a very easy solution

float4 f4 = (float4)(1.0f, 2.0f, 3.0f, 4.0f);

int gid = get_global_id(0);


float *p = &f4;

result[gid]=p[3];