What are the ways compilers recognize complex patterns?

What are the ways compilers recognize complex patterns?.
This answer is an example of a compiler recognizing that a complex expression is equivalent to a single operation:

uint8_t pcnt64(uint64_t n) {
n = n - ((n >> 1) & 0x5555555555555555…

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